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


In Context

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have amassed treasure for the last days.

4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which is by you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

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

6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

7 Be patient, therefore, brethren, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receiveth the early and the 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:5You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the 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 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;