1 C ome now, you rich, weep aloud and lament over the miseries (the woes) that are surely coming upon you.

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon;

2 Y our abundant wealth has rotted and is ruined, and your garments have become moth-eaten.

your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

3 Y our gold and silver are completely rusted through, and their rust will be testimony against you and it will devour your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped together treasure for the last days.

your 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!

4 l ook! the wages that you have withheld by fraud from the laborers who have reaped your fields, crying out; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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;

5 o n earth you have abandoned yourselves to soft (prodigal) living and to self-indulgence and self-gratification. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

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

6 Y ou have condemned and have murdered the righteous (innocent man), he offers no resistance to you.

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

7 S o be patient, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits expectantly for the precious harvest from the land. he keeps up his patient over it until it receives the early and late rains.

Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;

8 S o you also must be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is very near.

be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh;

9 D o not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you may not be judged. Look! The Judge is standing at the very door.

murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

10 a n example of suffering and ill-treatment together with patience, brethren, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord;

11 Y ou know how we call those blessed (happy) who were steadfast. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the Lord’s end, inasmuch as the Lord is full of pity and compassion and tenderness and mercy.

lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

12 B ut above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath; but let your yes be yes, and your no be no, so that you may not sin and fall under condemnation.

And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

13 I s anyone among you afflicted (ill-treated, suffering evil)? He should pray. Is anyone glad at heart? He should sing praise.

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

14 I s anyone among you sick? He should call in the church elders (the spiritual guides). And they should pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Lord’s name.

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

15 A nd the prayer of faith will save him who is sick, and the Lord will restore him; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him.

16 C onfess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray for one another, that you may be healed and restored. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available.

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

17 E lijah was a human being with a nature such as we have; and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and no rain fell on the earth for three years and six months.

Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray -- not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;

18 A nd he prayed again and the heavens supplied rain and the land produced its crops.

and again he did pray, and the heaven did give rain, and the land did bring forth her fruit.

19 b rethren, if anyone among you strays from the Truth and falls into error and another brings him back,

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,

20 L et the one be sure that whoever turns a sinner from his evil course will save soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins '> procure the pardon of the many sins committed by the convert].

let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.