13 Come now, you who say, ^j“Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet ^kyou do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a ^lmist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, ^m“If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. ⁿAll such boasting is evil. 17 ^oSo whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

1 Come now, you ^prich, ^qweep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your garments are ^rmoth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up ^streasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the ^twages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a ^uday of slaughter. 6 You have ^vcondemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.