James 5:2
Your wealth is ruined, and your clothes have been eaten by moths.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
In Context
1Come on, you rich people! You should weep and wail for all the problems that are coming your way!
Cross References
Job 13:28I'm falling apart like something rotten, like moth-eaten clothes.
Isaiah 50:9The Lord God defends me. Who is going to declare me guilty? Look! Those who try will fall apart like old clothing, eaten up by moths.
Jeremiah 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it didn't lay is someone who makes a fortune by cheating others. Their riches will fly away at midday, and in the end they'll look like a fool.
Matthew 6:19Don't pile up wealth here on earth where moths and rust ruin it, and where thieves break in and steal it.
James 2:2Imagine that a man comes into your synagogue wearing gold rings and fine clothes, and then a poor man comes in dressed in rags.
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 →