Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your[a] joy to gloominess. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

11 Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. The one who speaks evil of a brother or 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 of the law.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:9 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  2. James 4:11 The words “of the law” are not in the Greek text, but are an understood repetition from the previous clause