Epistula Iacobi

Iacobi, chapter 5, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 5 Vulgate

   1 Age nunc, divites, plorate ulu lantes in miseriis, quae adve nient vobis.
   2 Divitiae vestrae putrefactae sunt, et vestimenta vestra a tineis comesta sunt,
   3 aurum et argentum vestrum aeruginavit, et aerugo eorum in testimonium vobis erit et manducabit carnes vestras sicut ignis: thesaurizastis in novissimis diebus.
   4 Ecce merces operariorum, qui messuerunt regiones vestras, quae fraudata est a vobis, clamat, et clamores eorum, qui messuerunt, in aures Domini Sabaoth introierunt.
   5 Epulati estis super terram et in luxuriis fuistis, enutristis corda vestra in die occisionis.
   6 Addixistis, occidistis iustum. Non resistit vobis.
   7 Patientes igitur estote, fratres, usque ad adventum Domini. Ecce agricola exspectat pretiosum fructum terrae, patienter ferens, donec accipiat imbrem temporaneum et serotinum.
   8 Patientes estote, et vos, confirmate corda vestra, quoniam adventus Domini appropinquavit.
   9 Nolite ingemiscere, fratres, in alterutrum, ut non iudicemini; ecce iudex ante ianuam assistit.
   10 Exemplum accipite, fratres, laboris et patientiae prophetas, qui locuti sunt in nomine Domini.
   11 Ecce beatificamus eos, qui sustinuerunt; sufferentiam Iob audistis et finem Domini vidistis, quoniam misericors est Dominus et miserator.
   12 Ante omnia autem, fratres mei, nolite iurare neque per caelum neque per terram, neque aliud quodcumque iuramentum; sit autem vestrum "Est" est, et "Non" non, uti non sub iudicio decidatis.
   13 Tristatur aliquis vestrum? Oret. Aequo animo est? Psallat.
   14 Infirmatur quis in vobis? Advocet presbyteros ecclesiae, et orent super eum, unguentes eum oleo in nomine Domini.
   15 Et oratio fidei salvabit infirmum, et allevabit eum Dominus; et si peccata operatus fuerit, dimittentur ei.
   16 Confitemini ergo alterutrum peccata et orate pro invicem, ut sanemini. Multum enim valet deprecatio iusti operans.
   17 Elias homo erat similis nobis passibilis et oratione oravit, ut non plueret, et non pluit super terram annos tres et menses sex;
   18 et rursum oravit, et caelum dedit pluviam, et terra germinavit fructum suum.
   19 Fratres mei, si quis ex vobis erraverit a veritate, et converterit quis eum,
   20 scire debet quoniam, qui converti fecerit peccatorem ab errore viae eius, salvabit animam suam a morte et operiet multitudinem peccatorum.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
   2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
   3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
   4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
   5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
   6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
   7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
   8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
   9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
   10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
   11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
   12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
   13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
   14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
   15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
   16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
   17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
   18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
   19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
   20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.