James 5:4

Look, the pay of the laborers is crying out—the pay that you have withheld from those who harvested your fields, and the cries of the harvesters have gone into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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In The King James Version

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

In Context

3Your gold and your silver have become tarnished and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up your treasure for the last days.

5You have lived in luxury on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter.

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Cross References

Exodus 2:23A long time later, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out for help, and their pleas went up to God because of their bondage.

Exodus 22:22You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

Leviticus 19:13Do not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant must not stay with you all night until the morning.

Job 7:2Like a slave earnestly desires the shadows of evening, 1 like a hired man looks for his wages— 1

Job 31:38If my land ever cries out against me, 1 and its furrows weep together, 1

Psalms 9:12For the God who avenges bloodshed remembers; 1 he does not forget the cry of the oppressed. 1

Matthew Henry on James 5:2-12

Warnings to the Rich; Motives to Patience under Affliction. ( a. d. 61.) 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your 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. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and… Read the whole commentary →

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