James 5:5

James 5:5

3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. ^aYou have heaped up treasure in the last days.

4 Indeed ^athe wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and ^bthe cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of¹ Sabaoth.

5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and¹ luxury; you have fattened your hearts³ as in a day of slaughter.

6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.

Be Patient and Persevering

7 Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Translate, "Ye have luxuriated . . . and wantoned." The former expresses luxurious effeminacy; the latter, wantonness and prodigality. Their luxury was at the expense of the defrauded poor (James 5:4).

on the earth—The same earth which has been the scene of your wantonness, shall be the scene of the judgment coming on you: instead of earthly delights ye shall have punishments.

nourished . . . hearts—that is glutted your bodies like beasts to the full extent of your hearts' desire; ye live to eat, not eat to live.

as in a day of slaughter—The oldest authorities omit "as." Ye are like beasts which eat to their hearts' content on the very day of their approaching slaughter, unconscious it is near. The phrase answers to "the last days," James 5:3, which favors ALFORD'S translation there, "in," not "for."

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