1 Go to now ye rich men, weep, howling in your miseries which shall come to you.
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupt; and your garments are eaten of moths.
2 Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. You have stored to yourselves wrath in the last days.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.
4 Behold the hire of the work-men that have reaped your fields, which is defrauded of you, cryeth: and their cry hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabboth.
4 Behold the hire of the laborers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of sabbath.
5 You have made merry upon the earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts in the day of slaughter.
5 You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.
6 You have presented, and slain the just one: and he resisted you not.
6 You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of our Lord. Behold, the husband-man expecteth the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the timely and the lateward.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be you also patient, and confirm your hearts: because the coming of our Lord will approach.
8 Be you therefore also patient, and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9 Grudge not, brethren, one against another: that you be not judged. Behold, the judge standeth before the gate.
9 Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.
10 Take an example, brethren, of labour and patience, the Prophets, which spake in the name of our Lord.
10 Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labor and patience, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 Behold we account them blessed that have suffered. The sufferance of Job you have heard, and the end of our Lord you have seen, because our Lord is merciful and pitiful.
11 Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.
12 But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth; nor other oath whatsoever. But let your talk be, yea, yea: no, no: that you fall not under judgement.
12 But above all things, my brethren, ¹swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be, yea, yea: no, no: that you fall not under judgment.
13 Is any of you in heaviness? let him pray. Is he of a cheerful heart? let him sing.
13 Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.
14 Is any man sick among you? let him bring in the priests of the Church, and let them pray over him, anoiling him with oil in the name of our Lord.
14 Is any man sick 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.
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick: and our Lord shall lift him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be remitted him.
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.
16 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man like unto us, passible: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth, and it rained not for three years and six months.
17 ²Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth, and it rained not for three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again: and the heaven gave rain, and the earth yielded her fruit.
18 And he prayed again: and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 My brethren, if any of you shall err from the truth, and a man convert him:
19 My brethren, if any of you err from the truth, and one convert him:
20 he must know that he which maketh a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and covereth a multitude of sins.
20 He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.