Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is (A)in the last days that you have stored up your treasure! Behold, (B)the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and (C)the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of (D)the Lord of [a]Sabaoth. You have (E)lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have [b]fattened your hearts in (F)a day of slaughter.

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Footnotes

  1. James 5:4 I.e. Hosts
  2. James 5:5 Lit nourished