(A)Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is (B)in the last days that you have stored up your treasure! Behold, (C)the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and (D)the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of (E)the Lord of [a]Sabaoth.

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Footnotes

  1. James 5:4 I.e. Hosts

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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