13 Tu n'opprimeras point ton prochain, et tu ne raviras rien par violence. Tu ne retiendras point jusqu'au lendemain le salaire du mercenaire.
1 Maîtres, accordez à vos serviteurs ce qui est juste et équitable, sachant que vous aussi vous avez un maître dans le ciel.
4 Voici, le salaire des ouvriers qui ont moissonné vos champs, et dont vous les avez frustrés, crie, et les cris des moissonneurs sont parvenus jusqu'aux oreilles du Seigneur des armées.
Among the aspects of labour given attention to in the Bible, nothing is any more prominent than the aspect of thoroughgoing honesty in our work. This can be seen in three dimensions.
First, honesty in rendering an amount and a quality of work commensurate with one’s wage. To use the language of Titus 2:1–15: we are not then to pilfer; we are not to steal in little amounts—petty theft. How do men steal on the job? They steal small quantities of time by being late for work; by leaving early; by taking extended and unnecessary breaks; by withholding effort and skill and care required to produce a good or a service; by pilfering materials from the workplace, believing somehow that the employer is not going to miss them. There is to be honesty in rendering an amount and quality of work commensurate with one’s wage.
Secondly, there is to be honesty in rendering a just wage for the labour of the employee. That is the teaching of such text as Leviticus 19:13; Colossians 4:1; James 5:4, and the often repeated phrase in Scripture: the labourer is worthy of his wages. There is to be honesty on the part of the employer in rendering a just wage for the services and labours of his employees.
Thirdly, there is, concerning this thoroughgoing honesty, to be honesty in the sale of goods and services. All of the language referred to in the Scriptures concerning scales, balances, measures, and just weights. In the language of Jerry White, in his book Honesty, Morality and Conscience, on the principal issue that is in those texts.
George McDearmonThe principal issue is to give the full amount in exchange for a fair payment. Also, it is to give full quality for what is paid for and according to what is advertised. Honesty extends to quality as well as amount.God calls us to scrupulous honesty in the exercise of transactions of buying and selling.1
10 à ne rien dérober, mais à montrer toujours une parfaite fidélité, afin de faire honorer en tout la doctrine de Dieu notre Sauveur.