Jam 4:9. Ταλαιπωρήσατε, be afflicted) that ye may be weaned and estranged from the world. This is a blessed affliction. He does not here add, howl, as ch. Jam 5:1.[51]
[51] εἰς κατήφειαν, into heaviness [falling] of countenance) The same phrase as the German Kopfhängen. Comp. 1Ki 21:29; Isa 58:5; Mic 6:8. They who carp at others on this ground, are generally themselves such as have need above other men to let fall the countenance.-V. g.