James 5:2
Your wealth has decayed and your clothes have become moth-eaten.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
In Context
1Come now, you rich, howl as you weep over your distresses that are coming upon you!
Cross References
Matthew 6:19“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust ruin and where thieves break in and steal;
James 2:2For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothes, should enter your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy rags should also enter,
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 →