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


In Context

2 your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

3 your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!

4 lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you — doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

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

6 ye did condemn — ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.

7 Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain — early and latter;

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 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.