TSK · James 5:1

Yea, and when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe, and hast buylt goodly houses and dwelt therein:

And they wanne their strong cities, and a fat lande, and toke possession of houses that were full of all maner of goodes, welles digged out, vineyards, oliue gardens, & many fruiteful trees: and they did eate, and were filled, and became fat, and liued in pleasure through thy great goodnesse.

Whose children haue aboundaunce: & they leaue enough of that they haue remaynyng to their babes.

For I enuied at the case of the foolishe: I sawe the wicked flowe in all kynde of prosperitie.

Riches helpe not in the day of vengeaunce: but ryghteousnesse deliuereth from death.

Yet is there a sore plague which I haue seene vnder the sunne namely riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession:

And in that day dyd the Lorde God of hoastes call men vnto weepyng and mournyng, to baldnesse and girdyng about with sackcloth.

Thus saith the Lorde: Let not the wise man reioyce in his wisdome, nor the strong man in his strength, neither the riche man in his riches:

Awake ye drunkardes, & weepe, howle all ye wine bibbers for lacke of newe wine: for it is cleane taken away from your mouth.

Girde your selues and lament O ye priestes, howle ye out ye ministers of the aulter, come and lye all night in sackcloth ye seruauntes of my God: for the meate and drynke offerynges are taken away from the house of your God.

For the riche men thereof are full of crueltie, and the inhabitantes thereof haue spoken lyes, and haue deceitfull tongues in their mouthes.

Howle ye firre trees, for the Cedar is fallen, yea all the proude are wasted away: Howle O ye Oke trees of Basan, for the mightie strong wood is cut downe.

But wo vnto you that are riche: for ye haue your consolation.

Ther was a certaine riche man, whiche was clothed in purple & fine whyte, and fared very deliciously euery day.

For they that wyll be riche, fall into temptations and snares, and into many folishe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.

But ye haue despised the poore. Do not riche men oppresse you by tirannie, and drawe you before the iudgementes seates?

Go to nowe ye that say, to day and to morowe let vs go into such a citie, and continue there a yere, and bye and sell, and wynne: