5You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You 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 your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

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

6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

7 Be 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 late 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 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 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;