James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are become moth-eaten;
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
In Context
1Come now, ye rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that are coming upon you.
Cross References
Job 13:28And I, like an abandoned thing, shall waste away; Like a garment which is moth-eaten.
Isaiah 50:9Behold, the Lord Jehovah is my defender; Who is he that shall condemn me? Behold, they shall all waste away like a garment; The moth shall consume them.
Jeremiah 17:11As the partridge sitteth on eggs which she hath not laid, So is he that getteth riches, and not by right; In the midst of his days shall he leave them, And in his latter end find himself a fool.
Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where the moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
James 2:2For if there come into your assembly a man with a gold ring, in splendid apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment,
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 →