James 5:6

Justice Suffering

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.

⁵ Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

⁷ Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

⁸ Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.
KJV: Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
WEB: You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
ASV: Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one]; he doth not resist you.
DARBY: ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you.
BLB: You⁺ condemned [and] murdered the righteous one; he does not resist you⁺.

ÅB: Dere har domfelt og drept den rettferdige; ingen gjør motstand mot dere.
OTB: Dere har dømt og drept den rettferdige; han motsetter seg dere ikke.
B1930: I har domfelt og drept den rettferdige; ingen gjør motstand mot eder.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Peter 2:22–23
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
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John 19:9–11
And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
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Matthew 5:39
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
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Acts 8:32
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
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Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
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Luke 22:51–53
And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.
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James 4:2
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
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Acts 2:22–23
Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
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