James 4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ 0 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

² 1 Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law, and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

³ 2 There is one lawgiver, and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver.

⁴ 3 But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year, and will traffic, and make our gain.

⁵ 4 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

⁶ 5 For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that.

⁷ 6 But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked.

⁸ 7 To him therefore who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.

⁹ Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.

¹⁰ Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.

¹¹ 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.

¹² 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.

¹³ You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.

¹⁴ You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ Be you therefore also patient, and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

¹⁷ Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.