יעקב 2:6

Delitzsche Hebrew New Testament

וְאַתֶּם הִכְלַמְתֶּם אֶת־הֶעָנִי הֲלֹא הָעֲשִׁירִים הֵם הָעֹשְׁקִים אֶתְכֶם וְהֵם הַסֹּחֲבִים אֶתְכֶם אֶל־בָּתֵּי דִין׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Modern Translation
ואתם הכלמתם את העני הלא העשירים הם העשקים אתכם והם הסחבים אתכם אל בתי דין׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye: James 2:3, Psalms 14:6, Proverbs 14:31, Proverbs 17:5, Ecclesiastes 9:15, Ecclesiastes 9:16, Isaiah 53:3, John 8:49, 1 Corinthians 11:22

Do: James 5:4, Job 20:19, Psalms 10:2, Psalms 10:8, Psalms 10:10, Psalms 10:14, Psalms 12:5, Proverbs 22:16, Ecclesiastes 5:8, Isaiah 3:14, Isaiah 3:15, Amos 2:6, Amos 2:7, Amos 4:1, Amos 5:11, Amos 8:4-6, Micah 6:11, Micah 6:12, Habakkuk 3:14, Zechariah 7:10

and: James 5:6, 1 Kings 21:11-13, Acts 4:1-3, Acts 4:26-28, Acts 5:17, Acts 5:18, Acts 5:26, Acts 5:27, Acts 13:50, Acts 16:19, Acts 16:20, Acts 17:6, Acts 18:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:6 - General Leviticus 5:7 - he be not able to bring a lamb Leviticus 14:21 - poor Leviticus 19:15 - General Leviticus 25:35 - thy brother Deuteronomy 23:16 - thou shalt not Deuteronomy 24:17 - pervert Nehemiah 5:5 - our flesh Job 32:9 - Great Psalms 72:13 - shall save Psalms 74:19 - forget Psalms 103:6 - executeth Proverbs 14:21 - that despiseth Proverbs 19:1 - Better Proverbs 19:7 - the brethren Proverbs 22:7 - rich Ecclesiastes 3:16 - General Isaiah 3:5 - the people Jeremiah 20:13 - for Ezekiel 18:12 - oppressed Ezekiel 22:27 - princes Ezekiel 45:8 - and my princes Habakkuk 1:4 - for Zechariah 11:11 - so Matthew 19:23 - That Luke 1:48 - regarded Luke 1:53 - and Luke 6:24 - woe Luke 7:44 - thou John 12:6 - not Acts 18:6 - they Acts 25:6 - sitting Romans 12:16 - condescend to men of low estate Romans 15:26 - the poor 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - defraud 2 Timothy 3:3 - despisers James 1:9 - the brother James 5:1 - ye Revelation 2:9 - poverty

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But ye have despised the poor,.... Or dishonoured, and reproached them, by showing respect of persons, in preferring the rich to them, and in distinguishing them in such a manner as was to their contempt and injury; which is a reproaching not only of them, but their Maker; and is in effect saying, that God has done either a weak or a wrong thing, in choosing them to be rich in faith, and heirs of a kingdom, it being directly contrary to his conduct:

do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? which may be understood either of rich men that were unbelievers; and these either the Heathen magistrates, who ruled over them in a tyrannical way, and with rigour, and often summoned them before them, and persecuted them with violence; or their own countrymen, the Jews, who stirred up the chief men of the Gentiles against them, and drew them to their judgment seats, as they drew Paul to the judgment seat of Gallio, Acts 13:50 or else of rich professors of religion, who assumed a despotic power over the poor brethren of the church, and loved to have the pre-eminence over them, as Diotrephes did, and set up tribunals in the churches, and tried and condemned them in an arbitrary way; or else upon civil accounts had them before heathen magistrates, and went to law with them in their courts, before unbelievers, which is a practice condemned in 1 Corinthians 6:1, and seeing now rich men used them so ill, the apostle mentions this as an argument to dissuade them from respect of persons; seeing they had but little reason to show so much regard unto them, who had treated them in so evil a manner: this is not to be understood of all rich men; nor is the apostle's design to destroy that natural and civil order there is among men, by reason of their different stations, offices, and circumstances; it being highly proper that honour should he given to whom honour is due, but not to the dishonour of another.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But ye have despised the poor - Koppe reads this as an interrogation: “Do ye despise the poor?” Perhaps it might be understood somewhat ironically: “You despise the poor, do you, and are disposed to honor the rich! Look then, and see how the rich treat you, and see whether you have so much occasion to regard them with any peculiar respect.” The object of the apostle is to fix the attention on the impropriety of that partiality which many were disposed to show to the rich, by reminding them that the rich had never evinced towards them any such treatment as to lay the foundation of a claim to the honor which they were disposed to render them.

Do not rich men oppress you? - Referring probably to something in their conduct which existed particularly then. The meaning is not that they oppressed the poor as such, but that they oppressed those whom James addressed. It is probable that then, as since, a considerable portion of those who were Christians were in fact poor, and that this would have all the force of a personal appeal; but still the particular thought is, that it was a characteristic of the rich and the great, whom they were disposed peculiarly to honor, to oppress and crush the poor. The Greek here is very expressive: “Do they not imperiously lord it over you?” The statement here will apply with too much force to the rich in every age.

And draw you before the judgment-seats - That is, they are your persecutors rather than your friends. It was undoubtedly the case that many of the rich were engaged in persecuting Christians, and that on various pretences they dragged them before the judicial tribunals.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 6. Do not rich men oppress you — The administration of justice was at this time in a miserable state of corruption among the Jews; but a Christian was one who was to expect no justice any where but from his God. The words καταδυναστευουσιν, exceedingly oppress, and ελκουσινειςκριτηρια, drag you to courts of justice, show how grievously oppressed and maltreated the Christians were by their countrymen the Jews, who made law a pretext to afflict their bodies, and spoil them of their property.