James 5:2
Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
In Context
1Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.
Cross References
Job 13:28Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Isaiah 50:9Behold, lord LORD will help me. Who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Jeremiah 17:11As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,
James 2:2For if a man with a gold ring in bright clothing comes into your synagogue, and also a poor man in dirty clothing comes in,
Matthew Henry on James 5:2-12
Warnings to the Rich; Motives to Patience under Affliction. ( a. d. 61.) 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and… Read the whole commentary →