James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
In Context
1Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
Cross References
Job 13:28Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Isaiah 50:9Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
Jeremiah 17:11As the partridge that sitteth on [eggs] which she hath not laid, so is he that getteth 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 consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
James 2:2For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile 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 →