James 5:2
1 Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.
4 Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
- KJV
- Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
- WEB
- Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
- ASV
- Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
- DARBY
- Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
- BLB
- Your⁺ riches have rotted and your⁺ garments have become moth-eaten.
- ÅB
- Deres rikdom er råtnet, og deres klær er blitt møllett;
- OTB
- Deres rikdom har råtnet, og deres klær er blitt møllspist.
- B1930
- Eders rikdom er råtnet, og eders klær er blitt møllett;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 6:19–20
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Read in contextJob 13:28
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
Read in contextLuke 12:33
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
Read in contextIsaiah 50:9
Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
Read in contextIsaiah 51:8
For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
Read in context1 Peter 1:4
and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
Read in contextPsalms 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Read in contextJeremiah 17:11
Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
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