Wages - Deut 24:14-15

The original Korean text: https://blog.naver.com/stevision/50042703649

 

“You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brethren or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns; you shall give him his hire on the day he earns it, before the sun goes down (for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it); lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be sin in you.”

 

This is what the God said thousands of years ago especially for foreigners who came to Korea to make money. God commanded that Israelites should pay the wages of the day, before the sunset, to the workers who are Israelites or foreigners. These days, some Korean bad employers overwork foreigners and do not give them their wages. But God warns that he will punish the bad employers if the workers who are the weaker ones lament toward the heaven. Employees' wages must be paid in the same month.

 

Would God, who hates such evil employers, defraud those who work for God of their wages? I could see from those words that God is never the one who bilks workers out of their wages. If we obey God and are faithful to what is committed to us, God will never have us starve.

 

God, who hates evildoers that do not pay the wages of workers, is a welldoer who pays, as far as possible, our wages we must receive here on earth, before the sunset, that is, before we die. But if it is impossible, he will pay more in heaven after our life. (He is extremely faithful!)

 

And, usually, a good businessman gives a generous retirement allowance when an employee retires, so that he can live well for the rest of his life. God is good, so he gives us eternal life in paradise as a retirement allowance when we work for God here on earth and die.