Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
More grace (meizona xarin). "Greater grace." Greater than what? "Greater grace in view of the greater requirement" (Ropes), like Romans 5:20 f. God does this.
Wherefore (dio). To prove this point James quotes Proverbs 3:34.
God resisteth the proud (o qeov uperhfanoiv antitassetai). Present middle (direct) indicative of antitassw, old military term, to range in battle against, with dative case (Romans 13:2) as in James 5:6. uperhfanoiv (uper, fainomai) is like our vernacular "stuck-up folks" (Romans 1:30), "haughty persons."
But giveth grace to the humble (tapeinoiv de didwsin xarin). Anarthrous adjective again, "to humble or lowly persons," for which word see James 1:9 f. Cf. James 2:5-7; James 5:1-6.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing James 4:6:
Acts 18:6
James 1:9
James 4:5
James 5:6
1 Peter 5:5
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