James 5:3
Your 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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2Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.
Cross References
Genesis 31:48Laban said, “This pile is a witness between me and you today.” Therefore its name was called Galeed.
Genesis 49:1Then Jacob called for his sons, and said: 1 “Gather yourselves together, 1 that I may tell you what will happen to you in the future. 1
Joshua 24:27Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone will be a testimony against us. It has heard all the words Yahweh said to us. So it will be a witness against you, should you ever deny your God.”
Job 16:8You have made me dry up, which itself is a witness against me; 1 the leanness of my body rises up against me, 1 and it testifies against my face. 1
Jeremiah 19:9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters; each man will consume the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the anguish brought on them by their enemies and the ones seeking their lives.”'
Micah 4:1But in the last days it will come about 1 that the mountain of Yahweh's house 1 will be established over the other mountains. 1 It will be exalted above the hills, 1 and peoples will stream to 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 →