James 5:5 Parallel Translations

You have lived in luxury and pleasure here on earth. You have fattened yourselves for the day of slaughter.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

ASV:

Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts 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.

DBY:

Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter;

ERV:

Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

WEY:

Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves with gross feeding; but a day of slaughter has come.

WBS:

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

WEB:

You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

YLT:

ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

James 5:5 Cross References

XREF:

Jeremiah 12:3 But You know me, O LORD; You see me; And You examine my heart's attitude toward You. Drag them off like sheep for the slaughter And set them apart for a day of carnage!

Jeremiah 25:34 "Wail, you shepherds, and cry; And wallow in ashes, you masters of the flock; For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions have come, And you will fall like a choice vessel.

Ezekiel 16:49 "Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.

Luke 16:19 "Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.

1 Timothy 5:6 But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives.

2 Peter 2:13 suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have {b} nourished your hearts, as in a {c} day of slaughter.
(b) You have pampered yourselves.
(c) The Hebrews call a day that is appointed to solemn banqueting, a day of slaughter or feasting.

PNT:

5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton. Have spent your wealth on your own pleasures.
Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. The meaning is not entirely clear. Probably it is an allusion to the beasts which are fatted and feasted for slaughter and food. They were feasting and engaging in pleasure when the awful destruction was near.

WES:

5:5 Ye have cherished your hearts - Have indulged yourselves to the uttermost. As in a day of sacrifice - Which were solemn feast - days among the Jews.

MHC:

5:1-6 Public troubles are most grievous to those who live in pleasure, and are secure and sensual, though all ranks suffer deeply at such times. All idolized treasures will soon perish, except as they will rise up in judgment against their possessors. Take heed of defrauding and oppressing; and avoid the very appearance of it. God does not forbid us to use lawful pleasures; but to live in pleasure, especially sinful pleasure, is a provoking sin. Is it no harm for people to unfit themselves for minding the concerns of their souls, by indulging bodily appetites? The just may be condemned and killed; but when such suffer by oppressors, this is marked by God. Above all their other crimes, the Jews had condemned and crucified that Just One who had come among them, even Jesus Christ the righteous.

CONC:

Delicately Destruction Fat Fattened Feeding Gross Hearts Indulged Led Luxuriously Luxury Nourish Nourished Pleasure Profligate Self-indulgence Self-indulgent Slaughter Stupefied Wanton Yourselves

Delicately Earth Fattened Feeding Gross Hearts Indulged Luxuriously Luxury Nourish Nourished Pleasure Profligate Self-Indulgence Self-Indulgent Slaughter Wanton Yourselves

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