James 5:3

The gold of you and the silver has been corroded and the corrosion of them will be for a solemn eidus against you, and will eat the basar of you as Eish. You stored up otzar (treasure) in the Acharit Hayamim!

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2The osher of you has rotted and your malbush has become moth-eaten. + 5:2 Job 13:28; Ps 39:11; Isa 50:9

4Hinei, the wages of the po'alim (workers) who cut your fields, the wages you fraudulently withheld, those wages cry out, and the cries of the harvesting po'alim have reached the ears of Adonoi Tz'vaot. + 5:4 Lv 19:13; Jer 22:13; Mal 3:5; Dt 24:15

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Cross References

Genesis 31:48And Lavan said, This gal (heap, mound) is an ed (witness) between me and thee this day. Therefore was shmo called Gale'ed;

Genesis 49:1And Ya'akov called unto his banim, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the acharit hayamim (last days). 1

Joshua 24:27And Yehoshua said unto kol HaAm, Hinei, this Even (Stone) shall be as an edah (witness) unto us; for it hath heard all the words of Hashem which He spoke unto us; it shall be therefore as an edah (witness) unto you, lest ye are untrue to Eloheichem.

Job 16:8And Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, 1 which is an ed (witness) against me; 1 and my leanness rising up in me 1 beareth witness to my face. 1

Jeremiah 19:9And I will cause them to eat the basar of their banim and the basar of their banot, and they shall eat every one the basar of his re'a in the siege and desperation, wherewith their oyevim, and they that seek their nefesh, shall drive them to despair.

Micah 4:1But in the acharit hayamim (the last days) it shall come to pass, 1 that the Har Beis Hashem shall be established 1 as the rosh heharim (chief of mountains), 1 and it shall be exalted above the hills; 1 and amim (peoples) shall stream unto it. 1

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 →

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