Deuteronomy 24:15
13 You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the Lord your God. 14 You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages. 15 You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin. 16 Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin. 17 You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.
Sirach 34:25
Ben Sira, Ecclesiasticus23 The Most High is not pleased with the offerings of the ungodly, nor for a multitude of sacrifices does he forgive sins. 24 Like one who kills a son before his father's eyes is the person who offers a sacrifice from the property of the poor. 25 The bread of the needy is the life of the poor; whoever deprives them of it is a murderer. 26 To take away a neighbor's living is to commit murder; 27 to deprive an employee of wages is to shed blood.
Notes and References
"... Specifically, they have disobeyed the commandment of Leviticus 19:13 against withholding the wages of a day laborer until morning. James alludes also to Deuteronomy 24:14-15, a fuller version of that commandment, and to Isaiah 5:9 LXX. References to this commandment are frequent in Jewish literature (Malachi 3:5; Sirach 34:27; Tobit 4:14; Testament of Job 12:4; Pseudo-Phocylides 19). The reason is that the day laborer was a significant category of the poor. He neither owned nor rented land, but was employed a day at a time on the estates of others and paid his wages at the end of each day’s work. Of all peasant workers, he was in the most vulnerable position. His employment could be terminated at a few hours’ notice. He might often be unemployed. His wages were too small to make savings possible. He and his family lived from hand to mouth, and withholding his wages even until next morning was a serious matter. An employer who did so could even be accused of murder without hyper bole (Sirach 34:25-27) ..."
Dunn, James D. G., and J. W. Rogerson Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible (p. 1490) William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003