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Chiasm

James 5:1–6

James 5:1–62 matched frames

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

  • A 1-3 "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered..."
    • B 4a "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth"
    • B' 4b "and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth"
  • A' 5-6 "Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just"
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