Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers(A) who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.[a](B) You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts(C) for[b] the day of slaughter.(D) You have condemned—you have murdered—the righteous man; he does not resist you.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. James 5:4 Gk Sabaoth; this word is a transliteration of the Hb word for Hosts, or Armies.
  2. James 5:5 Or hearts in

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