James 5
1 Act now, you who are wealthy! Weep and wail in your miseries, which will soon come upon you!
Come now! ye wealthy! Weep ye, howling, for your hardships which are coming upon you:
2 Your riches have been corrupted, and your garments have been eaten by moths.
Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth-eaten, —
3 Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be a testimony against you, and it will eat away at your flesh like fire. You have stored up wrath for yourselves unto the last days.
Your gold and silver, have rusted away, and, their rust, shall be, witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as fire! Ye have laid up treasure in days of extremity: —
4 Consider the pay of the workers who reaped your fields: it has been misappropriated by you; it cries out. And their cry has entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields—that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered:
5 You have feasted upon the earth, and you have nourished your hearts with luxuries, unto the day of slaughter.
Ye have luxuriated upon the land, and run riot, ye have pampered your hearts in a day of slaughter;
6 You led away and killed the Just One, and he did not resist you.
Ye sentenced—ye murdered the Righteous one! Is he not arraying himself against you?
7 Therefore, be patient, brothers, until the advent of the Lord. Consider that the farmer anticipates the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently, until he receives the early and the late rains.
Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the Presence of the Lord: —Lo! the husbandman, awaiteth the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it, until it receive the early and the latter rain:
8 Therefore, you too should be patient and should strengthen your hearts. For the advent of the Lord draws near.
Be, ye also, patient, Stablish your hearts, because, the Presence of the Lord, hath drawn near.
9 Brothers, do not complain against one another, so that you may not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.
Be not sighing, brethren, one against another, lest ye be judged, —Lo! the Judge, before the doors, is standing.
10 My brothers, consider the Prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of departing from evil, of labor, and of patience.
An example, take ye, brethren, of distress and patience, —the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
11 Consider that we beatify those who have endured. You have heard of the patient suffering of Job. And you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.
Lo! we pronounce them happy who have endured; —Of the endurance of Job, ye have heard, and, the end of the Lord, have ye seen, —that, of much tender affection, is the Lord, and full of compassion,
12 But before all things, my brothers, do not choose to swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor in any other oath. But let your word ‘Yes’ be yes, and your word ‘No’ be no, so that you may not fall under judgment.
But, before all things, my brethren, do not swear, —either by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your Yea be yea, and your Nay nay, —lest, under judgment, ye fall.
13 Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he even-tempered? Let him sing psalms.
In distress, is any among you? Let him pray; Cheerful, is any? Let him strike the strings;
14 Is anyone ill among you? Let him bring in the priests of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Sick, is any among you? Let him call unto him the elders of the assembly, and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name [of the Lord]; —
15 And a prayer of faith will save the infirm, and the Lord will alleviate him. And if he has sins, these will be forgiven him.
And, the prayer of faith, shall save the exhausted one, and the Lord will raise him up, and, if he have committed, sins, it shall be forgiven him.
16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be saved. For the unremitting prayer of a just person prevails over many things.
Be openly confessing, therefore, one to another, your sins, and be praying in each other’s behalf, —that ye may be healed. Much availeth, the supplication of a righteous man, when it is energised:
17 Elijah was a mortal man like us, and in prayer he prayed that it would not rain upon the earth. And it did not rain for three years and six months.
Elijah, was, a man, affected like us; and he earnestly prayed that there might be no moisture, and there was no moisture on the land, for three years and six months, —
18 And he prayed again. And the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
And, again, he prayed, and, the heaven, gave, rain, and, the land, shot up her fruit.
19 My brothers, if anyone of you strays from the truth, and if someone converts him,
My brethren! If one among you be led to err from the truth, and one turn him back,
20 he ought to know that whoever causes a sinner to be converted from the error of his ways will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Be ye taking note—that, he that turneth back a sinner out of the error of his way—will save his soul out of death, and hide a multitude of sins.
