James 4:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Bible Comments

(6) Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to (a) heaviness.

(6) He goes on in the same comparison of opposites, and contrasts those profane joys with an earnest sorrow of mind, and pride and arrogancy with holy modesty.

(a) By this word the Greeks mean a heaviness joined with shamefacedness, which is to be seen in a cast down countenance, and settled as it were upon the ground.

James 4:9

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.