James 5:9 Don't grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Don't grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!

English Standard Version
Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.

New American Standard Bible
Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.

King James Bible
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Brothers, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door!

International Standard Version
Do not complain about each other, brothers, or you will be condemned. Look! The Judge is standing at the door!

American Standard Version
Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.

Darby Bible Translation
Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

Young's Literal Translation
murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

Cross References

Ezekiel 7:12
The time is come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is on all the multitude thereof.

Matthew 24:33
So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Mark 13:29
So you in like manner, when you shall see these things come to pass, know that it is near, even at the doors.

1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

James 4:11
Speak not evil one of another, brothers. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

James 4:12
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judge another?

James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brothers, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

James 5:10
Take, my brothers, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

1 Peter 4:5
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:7-11 Consider him that waits for a crop of corn; and will not you wait for a crown of glory? If you should be called to wait longer than the husbandman, is not there something more worth waiting for? In every sense the coming of the Lord drew nigh, and all his people's losses, hardships, and sufferings, would be repaid. Men count time long, because they measure it by their own lives; but all time is as nothing to God; it is as a moment. To short-lived creatures a few years seem an age; but Scripture, measuring all things by the existence of God, reckons thousands of years but so many days. God brought about things in Job's case, so as plainly to prove that he is very pitiful and of tender mercy. This did not appear during his troubles, but was seen in the event, and believers now will find a happy end to their trials. Let us serve our God, and bear our trials, as those who believe that the end will crown all. Our eternal happiness is safe if we trust to him: all else is mere vanity, which soon will be done with for ever.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9. Grudge not—rather "Murmur not"; "grumble not." The Greek is literally, "groan": a half-suppressed murmur of impatience and harsh judgment, not uttered aloud or freely. Having exhorted them to patience in bearing wrongs from the wicked, he now exhorts them to a forbearing spirit as to the offenses given by brethren. Christians, who bear the former patiently, sometimes are impatient at the latter, though much less grievous.

lest … condemned—The best manuscript authorities read, "judged." James refers to Mt 7:1, "Judge not lest ye be judged." To "murmur against one another" is virtually to judge, and so to become liable to be judged.

judge … before the door—referring to Mt 24:33. The Greek is the same in both passages, and so ought to be translated here as there, "doors," plural. The phrase means "near at hand" (Ge 4:7), which in the oldest interpretations [Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem] is explained, "thy sin is reserved unto the judgment of the world to come." Compare "the everlasting doors" (Ps 24:7, whence He shall come forth). The Lord's coming to destroy Jerusalem is primarily referred to; and ultimately, His coming again visibly to judgment.