James 5:4

Contemporary English Version 1995

You refused to pay the people who worked in your fields, and now their unpaid wages are shouting out against you. The Lord All-Powerful has surely heard the cries of the workers who harvested your crops.

Cross References

Leviticus 19:13

Do not steal anything or cheat anyone, and don't fail to pay your workers at the end of each day.

Jeremiah 22:13

King Jehoiakim, you are doomed! You built a palace with large rooms upstairs.

Romans 9:29

Isaiah also said, “If the Lord All-Powerful had not spared some of our descendants, we would have been destroyed like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.”

Malachi 3:5

The Lord All-Powerful said: I'm now on my way to judge you. And I will quickly condemn all who practice witchcraft or cheat in marriage or tell lies in court or rob workers of their pay or mistreat widows and orphans or steal the property of foreigners or refuse to respect me.

Exodus 22:27

because that is the only cover the poor have when they sleep at night. I am a merciful God, and when they call out to me, I will come to help them.

Luke 18:7

Won't God protect his chosen ones who pray to him day and night? Won't he be concerned for them?

Psalm 9:12

You did not forget to punish the guilty or listen to the cries of those in need.

Job 34:28

The persons they mistreated had prayed for help, until God answered their prayers.

Exodus 3:9

My people have begged for my help, and I have seen how cruel the Egyptians are to them.

Genesis 4:10

Then the Lord said: Why have you done this terrible thing? You killed your own brother, and his blood flowed onto the ground. Now his blood is calling out for me to punish you.

Colossians 4:1

Slave owners, be fair and honest with your slaves. Don't forget that you have a Master in heaven.

Habakkuk 2:11

The very stones and wood in your home will testify against you.

Isaiah 5:7

I am the Lord All-Powerful! Israel is the vineyard, and Judah is the garden I tended with care. I had hoped for honesty and for justice, but dishonesty and cries for mercy were all I found.

Isaiah 1:9

Zion would have disappeared like Sodom and Gomorrah, if the Lord All-Powerful had not let a few of its people survive.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful! Don't say to yourself, “Soon it will be the seventh year, and then I won't be able to get my money back.” It would be horrible for you to think that way and to be so selfish that you refuse to help the poor. They are your relatives, and if you don't help them, they may ask the Lord to decide whether you have done wrong. And he will say that you are guilty.

Isaiah 5:9

But the Lord All-Powerful has made this promise to me: Those large and beautiful homes will be left empty, with no one to take care of them.

Matthew 9:37

He said to his disciples, “A large crop is in the fields, but there are only a few workers.

Job 7:2

We are slaves in search of shade; we are laborers longing for our wages.