James 5:4
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.
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'Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts' — James 5:1–6 is the most sustained prophetic denunciation of economic exploitation in the New Testament, drawing directly on Amos 8:4–6 and Leviticus 19:13. The title 'Lord of Sabaoth' (YHWH tseva'ot, Lord of hosts) is a divine warrior epithet, suggesting that fraudulent wages are not merely a labor dispute but an act of war against the God who defends the poor. The phrase 'crying out' (kradzei) employs the same verb as the blood of Abel crying from the ground (Genesis 4:10), making withheld wages a form of violence demanding divine response. The passage has been a foundational text for Christian social ethics, liberation theology, and Catholic social teaching (Rerum Novarum explicitly cites James 5).
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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.
lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you--doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;
See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
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