OrthJBC - James - 5

5:1  Come now, you who have osher (riches), weep, howling over your miseries coming upon you. [Yeshayah 13:6; Yechezkel 30:2]

5:2  The osher of you has rotted and your malbush has become moth-eaten. [Iyov 13:28; Tehillim 39:11; Yeshayah 50:9]

5:3  The gold of you and the silver has been corroded and the corrosion of them will be for a solemn eidus (witness) against you, and will eat the basar of you as aish. You stored up otsar (treasure) in the Acharit Hayamim.

5:4  Hinei! The wages of the po'alim (workers) who cut your fields, the wages you fraudulently withheld, those wages cry out, and the cries of the harvesting po'alim have reached the ears of Adonoi Tz'vaot. [Vayikra 19:13; Yirmeyah 22:13; Malachi 3:5; Devarim 24:15]

5:5  You lived in indulgence upon ha'aretz and lolled in a life of luxury, you fattened your levavot as in a Yom Tivchah ("Day of Slaughter," Yeshayah 53:7). [Yechezkel 16:49; Amos 6:1; Yirmeyah 12:3; 25:34]

5:6  You condemned, you killed the tzaddik. He does not resist you. ZITZFLEISHCH (PATIENCE) AND TEFILLAH

5:7  Have zitzfleishch, therefore, Achim b'Moshiach until the Bias HaMoshiach, the Coming of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu. Hinei! The ikar (farmer) awaits the precious p'ri haAdamah (fruit of the earth), having zitzfleishch (patience) for it until it receives the Yoreh (first Autumn rain) and the Malkosh (Spring rain). [Devarim 11:14; Yirmeyah 5:24; Yoel 2:23]

5:8  You must also have zitzfleishch. Strengthen your levavot, because the Bias HaMoshiach, the Coming of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu, has drawn near.

5:9  Do not murmur, Achim b'Moshiach, against one another, lest you be judged. Hinei! HaShofet is standing before the delet! [Shemot 15:24; 16:2; 17:3; Bamidbar 14:2,29; 16:41; Tehillim 94:2]

5:10  Take as an example, Achim b'Moshiach, of innuyim (suffering) evil and of zitzfleisch the Nevi'im who spoke in the name of Hashem.

5:11  Hinei! We call blessed the ones having endured: the savlanut (long-suffering) of Iyov you heard of and the toitzaa (outcome) from Hashem you saw, that Hashem is full of rachamim and channun. [Iyov 1:21,22; 2:10; 42:10,12-17; Shemot 34:6; Bamidbar 14:18; Tehillim 103:8]

5:12  But, above all, my Achim b'Moshiach, do not swear shevuot (oaths) neither by Shomayim nor by ha'aretz nor any other shevu'ah but let be your "ken" be "ken," and your "lo" be "lo," for fear that you fall under HaDin.

5:13  If anyone is suffering among you, let him daven. If anyone has simcha, let his sing niggunim. [Tehillim 50:15]

5:14  Are there any cholim (sick ones) among you? Let him summon [for Bikkur Cholim (visiting the sick)] the ziknei haKehillah and let them daven tefillos over him, having applied the shemen mishchah (anointing oil), b'Shem Adoneinu. [Tehillim 23:5; Yeshayah 1:6]

5:15  And the tefillah of emunah will deliver the choleh (sick person), and Hashem will raise him up. And if he may have been committing pesha'im, he will be given selicha (forgiveness).

5:16  Therefore, make vidduy (confession) to one another, and daven tefillos on behalf of one another, so that you may have refuah sheleimah (complete healing). The tefillah of a tzaddik is powerful and effective.

5:17  Eliyahu [Hanavi] was a man of like nature to us, and with tefillah he davened for it not to rain, and it did not rain upon ha'aretz for shalosh shanim (three years) and shishah chodashim (six months); [Melachim Alef 17:1]

5:18  and again Eliyahu davened, and Shomayim gave geshem (rain) and ha'aretz caused its p'ri of it to sprout. [Melachim Alef 18:41-45]

5:19  My Achim b'Moshiach, if anyone among you wanders vait (astray) from HaEmes and someone turns a choteh (sinner) to make teshuva

5:20  you should have da'as that the one having helped a choteh (sinner) to make teshuvah from the toyus of his derech, from setiyah HaDerech Hashem (turning aside from the Way of Hashem) will save the neshamah of him from mavet and will cover a multitude of chatta'im.