James 4:13–5:6

¹³Go, now, ye who are saying, ‘To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;’ ¹⁴who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing; ¹⁵instead of your saying, ‘If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;’ ¹⁶and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil; ¹⁷to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

Chapter 5

¹Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you; ²your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; ³your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days! ⁴lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you—doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered; ⁵ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter; ⁶ye did condemn—ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.