1 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

2 Your wealth has rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, who does not resist you.

Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

7 Therefore, be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

8 You too must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

9 Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door.

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

10 Take, my brothers and sisters, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of suffering and patience.

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

11 See, we consider those who have endured to be blessed. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen the Lord's outcome—that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

12 Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or earth or any other oath. Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ mean ‘No,’ so that you may not fall under judgment.

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

13 Is anyone among you suffering hardship? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praises.

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

14 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.

Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders 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 will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise them up; and if they have committed sins, they will be forgiven.

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful and effective.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

17 Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

18 Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

19 My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you strays from the truth and someone turns them back,

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

20 let them know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save their soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.