James 5:2
The osher of you has rotted and your malbush has become moth-eaten. + 5:2 Job 13:28; Ps 39:11; Isa 50:9
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
In Context
Cross References
Job 13:28Around one who wastes away as a rotten thing, 1 as a beged (garment) that is moth eaten.
Isaiah 50:9See, Adonoi Hashem will help Me. + 50:9 Moshiach 1 Who is he that shall condemn Me? 1 See, they all shall wear out like a beged (garment); 1 the ahsh (moth) shall eat them. 1
Jeremiah 17:11As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; 1 so he that getteth osher (riches), and not by mishpat, 1 shall leave them in the midst of his days, 1 and at his end shall be a naval (fool). 1
Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves otzarot (treasures) on haaretz, where moth and rust destroy and where ganavim (thieves) break in and steal.
James 2:2For if there enter into your Beit HaKnesset (House of Assembly, shul, synagogue, shtibel) a man with gold rings on his fingers in expensive bekeshe (kaftan) and shtreimel, and there enters also an underpriviledged nebach, a kabtzen (poor person) in shmattes (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 →