Bible / James / Chapter 5 / Verse 1A moment in scriptureJames 5:1 " Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. " ← James 4:17James 5:2 → The surrounding passageJames 5:2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.James 5:3Your 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.Read all of James 5 →Download verse cardScripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.