or that city, and spend a year there and carry on
a successful business,"
004:014 when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow.
For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist,
which appears for a short time and then is seen no more.
004:015 Instead of that you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will,
we shall live and do this or that."
004:016 But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that
you boast: all such boasting is evil.
004:017 If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does
not do it, he commits a sin.
005:001 Come, you rich men, weep aloud and howl for your sorrows
which will soon be upon you.
005:002 Your treasures have rotted, and your piles of clothing are moth-eaten;
005:003 your gold and your silver have become covered with rust,
and the rust on them will give evidence against you,
and will eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded up wealth
in these last days.
005:004 I tell you that the pay of the labourers who have gathered
in your crops--pay which you are keeping back--is calling
out against you; and the outcries of those who have been
your reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of
the armies of Heaven.
005:005 Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent and profligate lives.
You have stupefied yourselves with gross feeding; but a day
of slaughter has come.
005:006 You have condemned--you have murdered--the righteous man:
he offers no resistance.
005:007 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the Coming of the Lord.
Notice how eagerly a farmer waits for a valuable crop!