vanishes away. (15)Instead of your saying, If the Lord
pleases, and we are alive, then we will do this or that thing. (16)But
now ye glory in your proud boastings: all such glorying is wicked.
(17)Therefore if a man knoweth how to act properly, and doth not, he is
criminal.

CHAP. V.

COME now, ye rich men, let your tears run down, howling over your
miseries which are coming upon you. (2)Your wealth is corrupted, and
your robes are moth-eaten. (3)Your gold and silver is cankered with
rust; and the rust upon them is a testimony against you, and shall eat
into your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasures in the last days.
(4)Behold, the wages of the workmen who have mowed down your fields,
which is kept back by you from them, crieth out: and the loud moans of
the reapers are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

(5)Ye have gormandized upon the earth, and lived in every luxury: ye
have pampered your hearts, as in a day of feasting on the victim slain.
(6)Ye have falsely condemned, ye have murdered the just man; nor doth
he resist you. (7)Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of
the Lord. See, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the
earth, in patient expectation for it, till it receives the former and
the latter rain. (8)Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the
coming of the Lord is at hand.

(9)Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest be ye condemned: lo!
the judge standeth at the gates. (10)My brethren, take a pattern for
suffering affliction, and patience from the prophets, who have spoken
to you in the name of the Lord.

(11)Behold, we esteem those blessed who patiently endure. Ye have heard
of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; for the Lord
is full of bowels of mercy, and tenderly compassionate.

(12)But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven,
nor by earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your
no, no; that ye fall not under condemnation.

(13)Is any man among you under afflictions? let him pray. Is any man
happy in mind? let him sing psalms. (14)Is any man sick among you? let
him send for the presbyters of the church; and let them pray over him,
anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: (15)and the prayer of
faith shall recover the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; and
if he hath committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

(16)Confess your offences one to another, and pray for one anot