1. Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2. Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
3. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasures for the last days.
4. Indeed the wages that you kept back by fraud from the laborers who harvested your fields are crying, and the cries of those who harvested have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
5. You have lived in pleasure on the earth and have been wayward. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
6. You have condemned and killed the righteous man who does not resist you.
7. Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Notice how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until he receives the early and late rain.