James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
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Exodus 2:23And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Exodus 22:22All of you shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Leviticus 19:13You shall not defraud your neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with you all night until the morning.
Job 7:2As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a worker looks for the reward of his work:
Job 31:38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
Psalms 9:12When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.
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 →