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lo, 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;

ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.

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Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers(A) who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries(B) of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.(C) You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves(D) in the day of slaughter.[a](E) You have condemned and murdered(F) the innocent one,(G) who was not opposing you.

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Footnotes

  1. James 5:5 Or yourselves as in a day of feasting