James 5:1-6

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Ill-Gotten Riches Will Yield a Treasure of Miseries

5 Come now, rich ones, weep while wailing over your miseries coming-upon you. ² Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver have become corroded^[a]. And their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored-up treasure^[b] in the last days! ⁴ Behold— the wages of the workers having mowed your fields, the wages having been fraudulently-withheld by you, cry-out. And the outcries of the ones having reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth^[c]. ⁵ You lived-in-luxury upon the earth, and you lived-indulgently^[d]. You fattened your hearts in^[e] a day of slaughter. ⁶ You condemned, you murdered the righteous. He does not oppose^[f] you!