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 dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till morning.

'Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates;

Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.

If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,

Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts Is the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.

Woe to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.

For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

The cries

And He saith, 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;

And it cometh to pass during these many days, that the king of Egypt dieth, and the sons of Israel sigh because of the service, and cry, and their cry goeth up unto God, because of the service;

'And now, lo, the cry of the sons of Israel hath come in unto Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them,

'Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he is poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee -- sin.

To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.

For He who is seeking for blood Them hath remembered, He hath not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night -- bearing long in regard to them?

General references

'And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst.

For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

For these do not I inspect, an affirmation of Jehovah, On a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?

And I have caused the noise of thy songs to cease, And the voice of thy harps is heard no more.

in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!