James 4:9
be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.
Cross References
Job 30:31And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.
Psalms 119:71Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.
Psalms 126:5Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap,
Ecclesiastes 2:2Of laughter I said, 'Foolish!' and of mirth, 'What [is] this it is doing?'
Isaiah 22:12And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,
Jeremiah 31:13Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men — together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow,
Matthew Henry on James 4:2-11
Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. ( a. d. 61.) 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever… Read the whole commentary →