James 5:2
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
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 the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
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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
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Read in contextJob 13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Read in contextLuke 12:33
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Read in contextIsaiah 50:9
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Read in contextIsaiah 51:8
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Read in context1 Peter 1:4
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
Read in contextPsalms 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Read in contextJeremiah 17:11
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
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