James 5:4

Now it happened in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the slavery, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their slavery rose up to God.

“And if you indeed afflict him, and if he earnestly cries out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;

‘You shall not oppress your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of a hired man shall not remain with you overnight until morning.

“Beware lest there be a vile thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of the remission of debts, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your needy brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to Yahweh against you, and it will be a sin in you.

“You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun goes down, for he is afflicted and sets his soul on it, so that he will not cry against you to Yahweh and it become sin in you.

If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him, And that He might hear the cry of the afflicted.

“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness And his upper rooms without justice, Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay And does not give him his wages,

And just as Isaiah foretold, “Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left to us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, and would have resembled Gomorrah.”