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

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he is of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

If my land crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain;

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 judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

Woe to him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

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

The cries

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the ground.

And 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 ascended to God, by reason of the bondage.

Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me: and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it, for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he should cry against thee to the LORD, and it be sin to thee.

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

And will not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night to him, though he beareth long with them?

General references

And if thou shalt sell aught to thy neighbor, or buy aught of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

Who make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst.

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

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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

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

But ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.