Santiago 5:5

5 Sus años sobre la tierra los han pasado con lujos, satisfaciendo todos y cada uno de sus deseos. Se han dejado engordar para el día de la matanza.

Santiago 5:5 Meaning and Commentary

James 5:5

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth
This is said of other rich men; for all that is here said is not to be understood of the same individuals, but some things of one, and some of another; some made no use of their riches, either for themselves, or others; some did make use of them, and employed the poor, and then would not give them their wages; and others lived a voluptuous and luxurious life, indulged themselves in carnal lusts and pleasures, and gratified the senses by eating, drinking, gaming, and so were dead while they lived. The phrase suggests, that their pleasures were but short lived, but for a season, even while they were on earth; and that hereafter they would not live in pleasure:

and been wanton;
through the abundance and plenty of good things, their delicious way of living, and the swing of pleasures which they took; the allusion is to fatted beasts, which being in good pastures, grow fat and wanton:

ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter,
when beasts were slain for some extraordinary entertainment, or for the solemn festivals and sacrifices the Jews, when they lived more deliciously than at other times; and then the sense is, that these rich men fared sumptuously every day; every day was a festival with them; they indulged themselves in intemperance; they ate and drank, not merely what was necessary, and satisfying, and cheering to nature, but to excess, and gorged, and filled themselves in an extravagant manner: the Syriac version, instead of "hearts", reads "bodies" and one copy reads, "your flesh": and the last phrase may be rendered, as it is in the same version, "as unto", or "for the day of slaughter"; and so the Arabic version, "ye have nourished your hearts, as fattened for the day of slaughter": like beasts that are fattened in order to be killed, so were they preparing and fitting up by their sins for destruction.

Santiago 5:5 In-Context

3 Su oro y plata han perdido su valor. Las mismas riquezas con las que contaban les consumirán la carne como lo hace el fuego. El tesoro que han acumulado se usará como evidencia contra ustedes el día del juicio.

4 Así que ¡escuchen! Oigan las protestas de los obreros del campo a quienes estafaron con el salario. El dinero que no les pagaron clama en contra de ustedes. Los reclamos de quienes les cosechan sus campos han llegado a los oídos del Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales.

5 Sus años sobre la tierra los han pasado con lujos, satisfaciendo todos y cada uno de sus deseos. Se han dejado engordar para el día de la matanza.

6 Han condenado y matado a personas inocentes,
que no ponían resistencia.

7 Paciencia y perseverancia
Amados hermanos, tengan paciencia mientras esperan el regreso del Señor. Piensen en los agricultores, que con paciencia esperan las lluvias en el otoño y la primavera. Con ansias esperan a que maduren los preciosos cultivos.