Your 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.(A) Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers(B) who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries(C) of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.(D) You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves(E) in the day of slaughter.[a](F) You have condemned and murdered(G) the innocent one,(H) who was not opposing you.

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Footnotes

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

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