A Warning to the Rich

5 You rich people, ·listen [^LCome now; 4:13]! Cry [Weep] and be very sad because of the ·troubles [miseries] 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 [corroded], and that ·rust [corrosion] will be a ·proof that you were wrong [^Lwitness/testimony/evidence against you]. It will eat your ·bodies [flesh] like fire. You ·saved [hoarded; stored up] your treasure ·for [or in] the last days [^Cjust before judgment day, when such treasures will be useless]. ⁴ [^LListen; ^TBehold] The ·pay [wages] you ·did not give [defrauded from] the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you [Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:14–15], and the cries of the ·workers [^Lharvesters] have ·been heard by [^Lreached the ears of] the Lord ·All-Powerful [of Hosts/Armies; ^LSabaoth; ^CGod’s warrior name referring to the angelic army]. ⁵ Your life on earth was full of ·rich living [luxury] and ·pleasing yourselves with everything you wanted [pleasure; self-indulgence]. You made ·yourselves [^Lyour hearts] fat, ·like an animal ready to be killed [in/for a day of slaughter; ^Ca farm animal gorging itself, unaware it is being fattened for slaughter]. ⁶ You have ·judged guilty [condemned] and then murdered innocent people, who ·were not against [did not resist/oppose] you.