5. Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter;
6. ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you.
7. Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it until it receive the early and the latter rain.
8. Ye also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.
9. Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.
10. Take as an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
11. Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful.
12. But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under judgment.
13. Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any happy? let him sing psalms.
14. Is any sick among you? let him call to him the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;