James 5

Warning to the Rich

1Come now, you rich # 5:1 Pr 11:28; Lk 6:24 people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you. 2Your wealth has rotted and your clothes are moth-eaten. # 5:2 Jb 13:28; Is 50:9; Mt 6:19–20 3Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days. # 5:3 Rm 2:5; Jms 5:8 4Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers # 5:4 Lv 19:13; Jb 24:10–11; Jr 22:13; Mal 3:5 who mowed your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Armies. # 5:4 Dt 24:15; Rm 9:29 5You have lived luxuriously on the earth and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts # 5:5 Jb 21:13; Am 6:1 in a day of slaughter. # 5:5 Jr 12:3; 25:34 6You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous, who does not resist you. # 5:6 Heb 10:38; Jms 4:2

Waiting for the Lord

7Therefore, brothers and sisters, be patient until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. # 5:7 Dt 11:14; Jr 5:24; Hs 6:3 8You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near. # 5:8 Rm 13:11; Php 4:5; 1Pt 4:7

9Brothers and sisters, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door! # 5:9 Mt 24:33; 1Co 4:5; Jms 4:12; 1Pt 4:5

10Brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name as an example of suffering and patience. 11See, we count as blessed those who have endured. # 5:11 Or persevered You have heard of Job’s endurance # 5:11 Jb 1:21–22; 2:10; 42:10–12 and have seen the outcome that the Lord brought about — the Lord is compassionate and merciful. # 5:11 Ex 34:6; Nm 14:18; Mt 5:10

Truthful Speech

12Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. # 5:12 Mt 5:33–37; 23:16–22; Mk 7:9–13 But let your “yes” mean “yes,” and your “no” mean “no,” so that you won’t fall under judgment. # 5:12 Other mss read fall into hypocrisy

Effective Prayer

13Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises. # 5:13 Ps 50:15; Col 3:16 14Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. # 5:14 Mk 6:13; 16:18 15The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up; if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. # 5:15 Is 33:24; Mt 9:2; Mk 2:5; Lk 24:47 16Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect. # 5:16 Nm 11:2; Mt 3:6; Jn 9:31; 1Pt 2:24 17Elijah was a human being as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land. # 5:17 1Kg 17:1; 18:1; Lk 4:25; Ac 14:15 18Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its fruit. # 5:18 1Kg 18:41–45; Jms 3:17–18

19My brothers and sisters, if any among you strays from the truth, # 5:19 Mt 18:15; Gl 6:1; Jms 3:14 and someone turns him back, # 5:19 Ps 51:13; Dn 12:3; Mal 2:6; Lk 1:16 20let that person know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. # 5:20 Pr 10:12; Rm 11:14; 1Pt 4:8

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Ya'akov 5

1Come now, you who have osher (riches), weep, howling over your miseries coming upon you.#5:1 Isa 13:6; Ezek 30:2 2The osher of you has rotted and your malbush has become moth-eaten.#5:2 Job 13:28; Ps 39:11; Isa 50:9 3The gold of you and the silver has been corroded and the corrosion of them will be for a solemn eidus against you, and will eat the basar of you as Eish. You stored up otzar (treasure) in the Acharit Hayamim! 4Hinei, the wages of the po'alim (workers) who cut your fields, the wages you fraudulently withheld, those wages cry out, and the cries of the harvesting po'alim have reached the ears of Adonoi Tz'vaot.#5:4 Lv 19:13; Jer 22:13; Mal 3:5; Dt 24:15 5You lived in indulgence upon ha'aretz and lolled in a life of luxury, you fattened your levavot as in a Yom Tivchah (Day of Slaughter).#5:5 Jer 12:3; 25:34; Isa 53:7 6You condemned, you killed the tzaddik, who does not resist you.

7Have savlanut (patience), therefore, Achim b'Moshiach, until the Bias HaMoshiach, the Coming of Moshiach Adoneinu. Hinei, the ikar (farmer) awaits the precious p'ri haAdamah (fruit of the earth), having savlanut (patience) for it until it receives the Yoreh (first autumn rain) and the Malkosh (spring rain).#5:7 Dt 11:14; Jer 5:24; Yoel 2:23 8You must also have savlanut. Strengthen your levavot, because the Bias HaMoshiach, the Coming of Moshiach Adoneinu, has drawn near. 9Do not murmur, Achim b'Moshiach, against one another, lest you be judged. Hinei, haShofet is standing before the delet!#5:9 Ex 15:24; 16:2; 17:3; Num 14:2,29; 17:6; Ps 94:2 10Achim b'Moshiach, take as an example, of yissurim (suffering) and of savlanut (patience) the Nevi'im who spoke b'Shem Adonoi. 11Hinei, we call me'ashirim the ones having endured: the enduring orech ruach (patience) of Iyov you heard of, and the toitzaa (outcome) from Hashem you saw, that Eloheinu is full of rachamim and channun Hashem.#5:11 Job 1:21,22; 2:10; 42:10,12-17; Ex 34:6; Num 14:18; Ps 103:8

12But, above all, my Achim b'Moshiach, do not swear shevuot (oaths) neither by Shomayim nor by ha'aretz nor any other shevu'ah, but let your “ken” be “ken,” and your “lo” be “lo,” for fear that you fall under HaDin (the Judgment).

13If anyone is suffering among you, let him daven. If anyone has simcha, let him sing niggunim.#5:13 Ps 50:15 14Are there any cholim (sick ones) among you? Let the choleh (sick person) summon#5:14 for Bikkur Cholim (Visiting the Sick) the Ziknei HaKehillah (Elders of the Congregation) and let them daven tefillos over him, having applied the shemen mishchah (anointing oil), b'Shem Adoneinu.#5:14 Ps 23:5; Isa 1:6 15And the tefillah of emunah will deliver the choleh (sick person), and Hashem will raise him up. And if he may have been committing peysha'im, he will be given selicha (forgiveness). 16Therefore, make vidduy (confession of sin) to one another, and daven tefillos on behalf of one another, so that you may have refuah sheleimah (complete healing). The tefillah of a tzaddik is powerful and effective. 17Eliyahu [HaNavi] was a man of like nature to us, and with tefillah he davened for it not to rain, and it did not rain upon ha'aretz for shalosh shanim and shishah chodashim (three years and six months).#5:17 1Kgs 17:1 18And again Eliyahu [HaNavi] davened, and Shomayim gave GESHEM (rain) and ha'aretz caused its p'ri to sprout.#5:18 1Kgs 18:45

19My Achim b'Moshiach, if anyone among you wanders vait (astray) from HaEmes and someone turns a choteh (sinner) to become a ba'al teshuva, 20You should have da'as that the one having helped a choteh (sinner) to become a ba'al teshuva and to turn from the toyus (error) of his derech, and from setiyah HaDerech Hashem (turning aside or deviating from the Way of Hashem), will save the neshamah of him from mavet and will cover a multitude of chatta'im.

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