James 5:5-6

[Winnie]

'You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure;you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you.'
Nasb
I know the niv says 'who was not opposing you', instead of 'he does not resist you.'

Sounds unimportant in the scheme of things, but since I went from the niv to the nasb, this has always bothered me because it really doesn't make sense in the nasb, tho I believe it is the better version as far as more being a more literal version.

I haven't learned yet how to look things up in Greek, because I use my phone and that would be a pain.

Does anybody have insight into this?
Sounds odd to say'he does not resist you.' It's like saying all righteous persons just meekly went to slaughter without a peep.

 

[Eugene]

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Dear Sister Winnie, vengeance is mine saith the Lord. Down below I have pasted an excerpt of a study of James if you’re interested I found helpful. To find the context when you get into the study just use Ctrl F and paste a segment to get to the part you’re looking for. There’s a couple arrows on the side that will disappear if you hit them with your cursor.

Jas 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Jas 5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Jas 5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Jas 5:4 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.
Jas 5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Jas 5:6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

http://www.gracegod.com/Study Books/Book of James1.pdf
"Ye have condemned and killed the just, and he doth not resist you." The just man does not resist the wicked oppressor; because God has said, "Vengeance is mine. I will repay." God does not resist him; because there is coming a day of reckoning, when the secrets of men's hearts will be disclosed and He will reward the righteous and punish the wicked.

Christ's Coming Foretold
"Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord." Here is further evidence that the foregoing words refer to people in the end of this age. Wickedness and wealth are signs of the near advent of Jesus. The saints suffer persecution and privation at the hands of the wealthy and wicked; but they are encouraged to be patient in the midst of their hardships, seeing that the end is nigh.

Blessings in Christ Jesus.

 

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'You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure;you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you.'
Nasb
I know the niv says 'who was not opposing you', instead of 'he does not resist you.'

Sounds unimportant in the scheme of things, but since I went from the niv to the nasb, this has always bothered me because it really doesn't make sense in the nasb, tho I believe it is the better version as far as more being a more literal version.

I haven't learned yet how to look things up in Greek, because I use my phone and that would be a pain.

Does anybody have insight into this?
Sounds odd to say'he does not resist you.' It's like saying all righteous persons just meekly went to slaughter without a peep.

None avoid their date with the power of death. There is no "resisting." It will prove futile and fruitless in any sights. And yes, to that extent we are all "like" sheep to the slaughter:

Romans 8:
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

The rich man in James and in scripture in general is a deeper subject to study, well steeped in allegory/parable containers.

Here is a picture (of many such) of the richest man on earth. He is a slave holder. The prison master. The hunter. The predator. The leviathan. The behemoth. The dragon. The covering cherub.

Acts 26:
18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

If you read James' account with the real rich man in mind, you'll see it quite differently.