James 5:2
Your riches are corrupt and stink, and your vestments are eaten of the moth,
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
In Context
1O rich men, howl and weep for the miseries which are coming upon you.
Cross References
Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures in the earth, a place where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal:
James 2:2For if there come into your congregation a man who hath rings of gold or beautiful vestments, and there come in a poor man in sordid vestments,
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 →