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Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have become corroded[a]. And their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored-up treasure[b] in the last days! Behold— the wages of the workers having mowed your fields, the wages having been fraudulently-withheld by you, cry-out. And the outcries of the ones having reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth[c].

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Footnotes

  1. James 5:3 Or, tarnished.
  2. James 5:3 Or, wrath, witnesses.
  3. James 5:4 Or, hosts, armies.

Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.(A) 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.(B) Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers(C) who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries(D) of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.(E)

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