James 5:2

Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

In Context

1Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

3Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

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Cross References

Job 13:28Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

Isaiah 50:9See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm.

Jeremiah 17:11Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

Matthew 6:19Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

James 2:2For if a man comes into your Synagogue in fair clothing and with a gold ring, and a poor man comes in with dirty clothing,

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 →

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