James 5:1-6

New International Version

Warning to Rich Oppressors

5 Now listen,^(A) you rich people,^(B) weep and wail^(C) because of the misery that is coming on you. ²Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.^(D) ³Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.^(E) ⁴Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers^(F) who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries^(G) of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.^(H) ⁵You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves^(I) in the day of slaughter.^[a]^(J) ⁶You have condemned and murdered^(K) the innocent one,^(L) who was not opposing you.

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James 5:5 Or yourselves as in a day of feasting

Amos 8:4-8

New International Version

⁴Hear this, you who trample the needy
and do away with the poor^(A) of the land,^(B)

⁵saying,

“When will the New Moon^(C) be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market^(D) wheat?”^(E)—
skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating^(F) with dishonest scales,^(G)
⁶buying the poor^(H) with silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals,
    selling even the sweepings with the wheat.^(I)

⁷The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob:^(J) “I will never forget^(K) anything they have done.^(L)

⁸“Will not the land tremble^(M) for this,
    and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
    it will be stirred up and then sink
    like the river of Egypt.^(N)