1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. 2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cries out: and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Yehovah of hosts. 5You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6You have condemned, you have killed the righteous one; he does not resist you. 7Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and latter rain. 8You also be patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9Do not murmur, brothers, against one another, that you may not be judged: behold, the judge stands before the doors. 10Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11Behold, we call those blessed who endured: you have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how the Lord is full of pity, and merciful. 12But above all things, my brothers, do not swear, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yes be yes, and your no, no; that you may not fall under judgment. 13Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise. 14Is any among you sick? let him call for the elders of the assembly; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15and the prayer of faith shall save him who is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. 16Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man avails much in its working. 17Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. 19My brothers, if anyone among you errs from the truth, and someone converts him; 20let him know, that he who converts a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.