James 5:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The hire

The cries

General references

1 Corinthians 6:8

Bible References

The hire

"'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and do not fear me," says the LORD of hosts.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

The cries

The LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.

Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

General references

"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

"Shall I not punish for these things?" says the LORD. "Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.

Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.