James 5:1-6

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Warning to the Rich

5 Come now, you rich^(A) people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you. ² Your wealth is ruined and your clothes are moth-eaten.^{(B) 3} Your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days!^{(C) 4} Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers^(D) who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.^{[a](E) 5} You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts^(F) for^[b] the day of slaughter.^{(G) 6} You have condemned—you have murdered—the righteous man; he does not resist you.^(H)