James 5:2

For your wealth is spoiled and putrid; and your garments are moth-eaten:

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

In Context

1O ye rich ones, wail and weep, on account of the miseries that are coming upon you.

3and your gold and your silver have contracted rust; and the rust of them will be testimony against you; and it will eat your flesh. Ye have heaped up a fire to you against the latter days.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal.

James 2:2For if there come into your assembly a man with rings of gold or splendid garments, and there come in a poor man in sordid garments;

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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