5:1  
    [kjv]  Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
    [bbe]  Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
5:2  
    [kjv]  Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
    [bbe]  Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
5:3  
    [kjv]  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.
    [bbe]  Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
5:4
    [kjv]  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.
    [bbe]  See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
5:5  
    [kjv]  Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
    [bbe]  You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
5:6
    [kjv]  Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
    [bbe]  You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
5:7  
    [kjv]  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.
    [bbe]  Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
5:8  
    [kjv]  Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
    [bbe]  Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.
5:9  
    [kjv]  Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
    [bbe]  Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.
5:10  
    [kjv]  Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
    [bbe]  Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.
5:11
    [kjv]  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............