James 5:3

The gold of{you} and the silver has-been-rusted/corroded-down, and the rust/corrosion of{same} will-be into witness to{you}, and will-eat the fleshes of{you}, as fire you-wealth-ize in to{[the] last days}.

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

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 riches of{you} has-rotted and the outer-garments of{you} has-become moth-eaten.

4Behold the wage of{the workers, the mow[ing]/cut[ing]/reap[ing]} the regions/spaces[i.e. fields] of{you}, the having-been-deprived-off/away from of{you} is-crying-out, and the cries of{the[plural] harvest[ing]} have-come-into into the ears of{[the] Lord} Sabaoth[Hebrew translit. "hosts/armies"].

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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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