James 5:2

Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.

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Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

In Context

1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail because of the miseries coming on you.

3Your gold and your silver have become tarnished and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up your treasure for the last days.

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Cross References

Job 13:28although I am like a rotten thing that wastes away, 1 like a garment that moths have eaten.

Isaiah 50:9See, the Lord Yahweh will help me. Who will declare me guilty? 1 See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up. 1

Jeremiah 17:11A partridge hatches an egg that she did not lay. Someone may become rich unjustly, 1 but when half his days are over, those riches will abandon him, and in the end he will be a fool.” 1

Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

James 2:2Suppose that someone enters your meeting wearing gold rings and fine clothes, and there also enters a poor man in dirty clothes.

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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