James 1:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

If any want — The connexion between the first and following verses, both here and in the fourth chapter, will be easily discerned by him who reads them, while he is suffering wrongfully. He will then readily perceive, why the apostle mentions all those various affections of the mind. Wisdom — To understand, whence and why temptations come, and how they are to be improved. Patience is in every pious man already. Let him exercise this, and ask for wisdom. The sum of wisdom, both in the temptation of poverty and of riches, is described in James 1:9-10. Who giveth to all — That ask aright. And upbraideth not — Either with their past wickedness, or present unworthiness.