James 5:4 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁴ Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ [But] look! [Here are] the wages that you have withheld by fraud from the laborers who have reaped your fields, crying out [for vengeance]; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Common English Bible

⁴ Listen! Hear the cries of the wages of your field hands. These are the wages you stole from those who harvested your fields. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of heavenly forces.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Consider the pay of the workers who reaped your fields: it has been misappropriated by you; it cries out. And their cry has entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

James 5:4 Cross References

Matthew 9:37

Then He said to His disciples, "Indeed the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

Luke 18:7

And God, shall He not execute justice for His own elect, who cry out day and night to Him, and yet He is patient with them?

Romans 9:29

And just as Isaiah foretold: "If the LORD of hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have resembled Gomorrah."

Colossians 4:1

Masters, provide to your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in [the] heavens.