James 5:2
Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
In Context
1Goe to nowe, ye rich men: weepe, and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you.
Cross References
Job 13:28Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
Isaiah 50:9Beholde, the Lord God will helpe me: who is he that can condemne me? loe, they shall waxe olde as a garment: the mothe shall eate them vp.
Jeremiah 17:11As the partryche gathereth the yong, which she hath not brought forth: so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leaue them in the middes of his dayes, and at his ende shall bee a foole.
Matthew 6:19Lay not vp treasures for your selues vpon the earth, where the mothe and canker corrupt, and where theeues digge through and steale.
James 2:2For if there come into your company a man with a golde ring, and in goodly apparell, and there come in also a poore man in vile raiment,
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 →