5You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.


In Context

2 Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.

3 Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.

4 Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

5 You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.

6 You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.

7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.

James 5:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:5Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:5You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:5You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:5Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:5Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:5Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:5Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:5You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:5ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;