ORIGINAL
1 GO to now you rich men, weep, howling in your miseries which shall come to you.
2 Your riches are corrupt: and your garments are eaten of moths.
3 Your gold and silver is rusted: and their rust shall be for a testimony to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. You have stored to yourselves wrath in the last days.
4 Behold the hire of the workmen that have reaped your fields, which is defrauded of you, cries: and their cry has entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabboth.
5 You have made merry upon the earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts in the day of slaughter.
6 You have presented, and slain the Just One: and he resisted you not.
7 Be patient therefore brethren, until the coming of our Lord. Behold, the husband man expects the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing til he receive the timely and the lateward.
8 Be you also patient, and confirm your hearts: because the coming of our Lord will approach.
9 Grudge not brethren one against another: that you be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the gate.
10 Take an example, brethren, of labor and patience, the prophets: which spoke in the name of our Lord.
11 Behold we account them blessed that have suffered. The sufferance of job you have heard, and the end of our Lord you have seen, because our Lord is merciful and pitiful.
12 But before all things my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor other oath whatsoever. But let your talk be, yea, yea: no, no: that you fall not under judgement.
13 Is any of you in heaviness? Let him pray. Is he of a cheerful heart? Let him sing.
14 Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of our Lord.
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick: and our Lord shall lift him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be remitted him.
16 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man avails much.
17 Elijah was a man like unto us passable: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth, and it rained not for three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again: and the heaven gave rain, and the earth yielded her fruit.
19 My brethren, if any of you shall err from the truth, and a man convert him:
20 he must know that he which makes a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and covers a multitude of sins.
| CHALLONER
1
Go to
now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.
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.
8 Be you therefore also patient, and strengthen your
hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9 Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you
may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.
10 Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil,
of labour and patience, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 Behold, we account them blessed who have endured.
You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord,
that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not,
neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech
be, yea, yea: no, no: that you fall not under judgment.
13 Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he cheerful in
mind? Let him sing.
14 Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the
priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in
the name of the Lord.
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and
the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray
one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man
availeth much.
17 Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with
prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth, and it rained not for
three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again: and the heaven gave rain, and
the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 My brethren, if any of you err from the truth, and
one convert him:
20 He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be
converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall
cover a multitude of sins.
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