James 5:1-6

New Century Version

A Warning to the Rich

5 You rich people, listen! Cry and be very sad because of the troubles that are coming to you. ² Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have been eaten by moths. ³ Your gold and silver have rusted, and that rust will be a proof that you were wrong. It will eat your bodies like fire. You saved your treasure for the last days. ⁴ The pay you did not give the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the workers have been heard by the Lord All-Powerful. ⁵ Your life on earth was full of rich living and pleasing yourselves with everything you wanted. You made yourselves fat, like an animal ready to be killed. ⁶ You have judged guilty and then murdered innocent people, who were not against you.