A Warning to the Rich (Proverbs 23:1–5; 1 Timothy 6:17–19)
1 RV Go to now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. BSB BSB: Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
2 RV Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. BSB BSB: Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
3 RV Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. BSB BSB: Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.
4 RV Behold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. BSB BSB: Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
5 RV Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. BSB BSB: You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
6 RV Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one ; he doth not resist you. BSB BSB: You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.
Patience in Suffering (Job 1:1–5)
7 RV Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. BSB BSB: Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
8 RV Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. BSB BSB: You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
9 RV Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors. BSB BSB: Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!
10 RV Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord. BSB BSB: Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 RV Behold, we call them blessed which endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful. BSB BSB: See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
12 RV But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment. BSB BSB: Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, so that you will not fall under judgment.
The Prayer of Faith 13 RV Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise. BSB BSB: Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
15 RV and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. BSB BSB: And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
16 RV Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working. BSB BSB: Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
17 RV Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. BSB BSB: Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
18 RV And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. BSB BSB: Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
Restoring a Sinner 19 RV My brethren, if any among you do err from the truth, and one convert him; BSB BSB: My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,
20 RV let him know, that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins. BSB BSB: consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
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