Your riches are rotten, and your clothes moth-eaten, your money rusting,

and this rust will be evidence against you, and consume your body like fire;

You have filled your vaults, while time is running out:

Hear the groans of your workers, who harvested your fields,

and whose wages you held back,

groans that have reached the ears of Almighty God;

On earth, you have bathed yourself in luxury and decadence -

you have merely fattened youself for the slaughter.

You judged and murdered those who were in the right,

while they put up no resistance.

James 5