13  Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain, 14  ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, (for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,) 15  instead of your saying, If the Lord should so will and we should live, we will also do this or that. 16  But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. 17  To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Chapter 5

1  Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you. 2  Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten. 3  Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4  Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5  Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter; 6  ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you.