OET interlinear YAC (JAM) 5:4

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ἰδοὺ, ὁ μισθὸς τῶν ἐργατῶν

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Ἰδού ὁ μισθός τῶν ἐργατῶν τῶν ἀμησάντων τάς χώρας ὑμῶν ὁ ἀφυστερημένος ἀφʼ ὑμῶν κράζει καί αἱ βοαί τῶν θερισάντων εἰς τά ὦτα Κυρίου Σαβαώθ εἰσεληλύθασιν)

The term Behold focuses the attention of a listener or reader on what a speaker or writer is about to say. It may be helpful to express its meaning as a separate sentence here. Alternate translation: [Consider this! The pay of the workers]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

ὁ μισθὸς τῶν ἐργατῶν, τῶν ἀμησάντων τὰς χώρας ὑμῶν, ὁ ἀφυστερημένος ἀφ’ ὑμῶν, κράζει

the ¬which (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Ἰδού ὁ μισθός τῶν ἐργατῶν τῶν ἀμησάντων τάς χώρας ὑμῶν ὁ ἀφυστερημένος ἀφʼ ὑμῶν κράζει καί αἱ βοαί τῶν θερισάντων εἰς τά ὦτα Κυρίου Σαβαώθ εἰσεληλύθασιν)

If your language does not use this passive form, you can express it with an active form. When James says from you, he does not mean that this payment has been withheld from the rich owners of these fields. He is saying that it was due from them, but they have not paid it to their workers. Alternate translation: [the pay that you have withheld from the workers who reaped your fields is crying out]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

κράζει

˓is˒_crying_out

James is speaking of this pay as if it were a living thing that could cry out. Alternate translation: [is obvious evidence that you have done wrong]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

αἱ βοαὶ τῶν θερισάντων, εἰς τὰ ὦτα Κυρίου Σαβαὼθ εἰσελήλυθαν

the (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Ἰδού ὁ μισθός τῶν ἐργατῶν τῶν ἀμησάντων τάς χώρας ὑμῶν ὁ ἀφυστερημένος ἀφʼ ὑμῶν κράζει καί αἱ βοαί τῶν θερισάντων εἰς τά ὦτα Κυρίου Σαβαώθ εἰσεληλύθασιν)

James is speaking of the ears of the Lord to mean his hearing. Alternate translation: [the Lord of Sabaoth has heard the cries of the harvesting ones]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

Κυρίου Σαβαὼθ

˱of˲_˓the˒_Lord (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Ἰδού ὁ μισθός τῶν ἐργατῶν τῶν ἀμησάντων τάς χώρας ὑμῶν ὁ ἀφυστερημένος ἀφʼ ὑμῶν κράζει καί αἱ βοαί τῶν θερισάντων εἰς τά ὦτα Κυρίου Σαβαώθ εἰσεληλύθασιν)

James assumes that his readers will know that he is speaking of God by a name by which he is often known in the Old Testament. The Hebrew term Sabaoth means “military forces.” Alternate translation: [God, the Lord of the Heavenly Armies]

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

Κυρίου Σαβαὼθ

˱of˲_˓the˒_Lord (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Ἰδού ὁ μισθός τῶν ἐργατῶν τῶν ἀμησάντων τάς χώρας ὑμῶν ὁ ἀφυστερημένος ἀφʼ ὑμῶν κράζει καί αἱ βοαί τῶν θερισάντων εἰς τά ὦτα Κυρίου Σαβαώθ εἰσεληλύθασιν)

James may be speaking of God’s almighty power by association with the way that God has all the armies of heaven at his command. Alternate translation: [God, the Lord Almighty]