James Chapter 5 verse 13 Holy Bible

ASV James 5:13

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.
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BBE James 5:13

Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.
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DARBY James 5:13

Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any happy? let him sing psalms.
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KJV James 5:13

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
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WEB James 5:13

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
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YLT James 5:13

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;
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James 5 : 13 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 13-20. - Exhortations with respect to practical conduct in health and sickness. Verse 13. - (1) Is any among you suffering? let him pray. (2) Is any cheerful? let him sing praise. Prayer in the narrower sense of petition is rather for sufferers, who need to have their wants supplied and their sorrows removed. Praise, the highest form of prayer, is to spring up from the grateful heart of the cheerful. Ψάλλειν (cf. Romans 15:9; 1 Corinthians 14:15; Ephesians 5:19).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) We now pass on to advice of different kinds--to the heavy-laden or light-hearted, to the suffering and afflicted. Prayer is to be the refuge of one, praise the safeguard of another; the whole life is to revolve, as it were, around the throne of God, whether in the night of grief or day of joy.Let him pray.--No worthier comment can be found than Montgomery's hymn--"Prayer is the burden of a sigh,The falling of a tear,The upward glancing of an eye,When none but God is near."Long petitions, or many, cannot be always made; mind and body may be too weak and ill; but ejaculations--"Arrows of the Lord's deliverance," as Augustine called them, "shot out with a sudden quickness"--these are ever in the power of the beleaguered Christian. And--"More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of."Let him sing.--The word originally applied to instrumental music, the Eastern accompaniment of "psalms." Praise, like prayer, ought to be individual as well as congregational. Hymns might be used by all in their devotions, and could not fail to be a blessing; while for those who have God's great gift of music, it were surely better to sing--as the Apostle urges--than to say. There is a sadness latent in the most jubilant of earthly tunes, but not so with the heavenly; and quiring angels do not scorn to catch our humblest notes, and weave them in their endless song, if they be raised in thankfulness to Him Whom they and all creation praise.