Boasting About Tomorrow

13 Now listen,f you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”g 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.h 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will,i we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.j 17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.k

Warning to Rich Oppressors

5 Now listen,l you rich people,m weep and wailn because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.o 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.p 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workersq who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The criesr of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.s 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselvest in the day of slaughter.a u 6 You have condemned and murderedv the innocent one,w who was not opposing you.