Iacobi 5
1 Agite nunc divites, plorate ululantes in miseriis vestris, quae advenient vobis.
O ye rich ones, wail and weep, on account of the miseries that are coming upon you.
2 Divitiae vestrae putrefactae sunt: et vestimenta vestra a tineis comesta sunt.
For your wealth is spoiled and putrid; and your garments are moth-eaten:
3 Aurum, et argentum vestrum aeruginavit: et aerugo eorum in testimonium vobis erit, et manducabit carnes vestras sicut ignis. Thesaurizastis vobis iram in novissimis diebus.
and your gold and your silver have contracted rust; and the rust of them will be testimony against you; and it will eat your flesh. Ye have heaped up a fire to you against the latter days.
4 Ecce merces operariorum, qui messuerunt regiones vestras, quae fraudata est a vobis, clamat: et clamor eorum in aures Domini sabbaoth introivit.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your ground, which ye have wrongfully retained, crieth out; and the clamor of the reapers hath entered the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 Epulati estis super terram, et in luxuriis enutristis corda vestra in die occisionis.
For ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and revelled, and feasted your bodies as in a day of slaughter.
6 Adduxistis, et occidistis iustum, et non resistit vobis.
Ye have condemned and slain the just, and none resisted you.
7 Patientes igitur estote fratres usque ad adventum Domini. Ecce agricola expectat pretiosum fructum terrae, patienter ferens donec accipiat temporaneum, et serotinum.
But, my brethren, be ye patient until the advent of the Lord; like the husbandman, who waiteth for the precious fruits of his ground, and is patient as to them, until he receive the early and the latter rain.
8 Patientes igitur estote et vos, et confirmate corda vestra: quoniam adventus Domini appropinquabit.
So also be ye patient, and fortify your hearts; for the advent of our Lord draweth nigh
9 Nolite ingemiscere fratres in alterutrum, ut non iudicemini. Ecce iudex ante ianuam assistit.
Be not querulous one against another, my brethren, lest ye be judged: for lo, the judgment, standeth before the door.
10 Exemplum accipite, fratres, exitus mali, laboris, et patientiae, Prophetas: qui locuti sunt in nomine Domini.
For patience in your afflictions, my brethren, take to you the example of the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 Ecce beatificamus eos, qui sustinuerunt. Sufferentiam Iob audistis, et finem Domini vidistis, quoniam misericors Dominus est, et miserator.
For lo, we ascribe blessedness to them who have borne suffering. Ye have heard of the patience of Job; and ye have seen the result which the Lord wrought for him: for the Lord is merciful and compassionate.
12 Ante omnia autem fratres mei nolite iurare, neque per caelum, neque per terram, neque aliud quodcumque iuramentum. Sit autem sermo vester: Est, est: Non, non: ut non sub iudicio decidatis.
But above all things, my brethren, swear ye not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your language be yes, yes, and no, no, lest ye become obnoxious to judgment.
13 Tristatur autem aliquis vestrum: oret aequo animo et psallat.
And if any of you shall be in affliction, let him pray; or if he be joyous, let him sing psalms.
14 Infirmatur quis in vobis? inducat presbyteros Ecclesiae, et orent super eum, ungentes eum oleo in nomine Domini:
And if one is sick, let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray for him, and anoint him with oil in the name of our Lord:
15 et oratio fidei salvabit infirmum, et alleviabit eum Dominus: et si in peccatis sit, remittentur ei.
and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and our Lord will raise him up; and if sins have been committed by him, they will be forgiven him.
16 Confitemini ergo alterutrum peccata vestra, et orate pro invicem ut salvemini: multum enim valet deprecatio iusti assidua.
And confess ye your faults one to another, and pray ye one for another, that ye may be healed; for great is the efficacy of the prayer which a righteous man prayeth.
17 Elias homo erat similis nobis passibilis: et oratione oravit ut non plueret super terram, et non pluit annos tres, et menses sex.
Elijah also was a man of sensations like us, and he prayed that rain might not descend upon the earth; and it descended not, for three years and six months.
18 Et rursum oravit: et caelum dedit pluviam, et terra dedit fructum suum.
And again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth gave forth its fruits.
19 Fratres mei, si quis ex vobis erraverit a veritate, et converterit quis eum:
My brethren, if one of you err from the way of truth, and any one convert him from his error;
20 scire debet quoniam qui converti fecerit peccatorem ab errore viae suae, salvabit animam eius a morte, et operiet multitudinem peccatorum.
let him know, that he who turneth the sinner from the error of his way, will resuscitate his soul from death, and will cover the multitude of his sins.
