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James 5:2
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Your wealth has rotted and your clothes are moth-eaten.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments motheaten:
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.
Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have been eaten by moths.
Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.
Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
Your treasures have already rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.
Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten;
Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
Your riches will rot and be worth nothing. Your clothes will be eaten by moths.
Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten.
Your riches are destroyed and rotted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your riches have rotted away, and your clothes have been eaten by moths.
Your wealth has rotted, and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
Your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
Your wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [fine] clothes have become moth-eaten.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your riches are rotten, your clothes have been eaten by moths,Job 1:13:28; Matthew 6:20; James 2:2;">[xr]
Your riches are corrupt and stink, and your vestments are eaten of the moth,
For your wealth is spoiled and putrid; and your garments are moth-eaten:
Your riches is corrupt, your garmentes are motheaten:
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your treasures have rotted, and your piles of clothing are moth-eaten;
Youre richessis ben rotun, and youre clothis ben etun of mouytis.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags.
Your riches are worth nothing. Your fine clothes are full of moth holes.
Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.
Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth-eaten, -
Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.
Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
Youre riches is corrupte, youre garmetes are motheaten.
your wealth is wasted, your wardrobe is devour'd by the worm,
Your money will rot and moths will eat your best clothes.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Your riches: Jeremiah 17:11, Matthew 6:19, Matthew 6:20, Luke 12:33, 1 Peter 1:4
your garments: James 2:2, Job 13:28, Psalms 39:11, Isaiah 50:9, Isaiah 51:8, Hosea 5:12
Reciprocal: Exodus 16:20 - bred worms Judges 14:12 - change 2 Kings 5:5 - ten changes Job 27:16 - prepare raiment Proverbs 23:5 - riches Ecclesiastes 5:8 - regardeth Jeremiah 25:34 - Howl Jeremiah 48:36 - the riches Zechariah 5:4 - and it shall remain James 4:9 - afflicted 1 Peter 1:7 - that
Cross-References
He answered and sayd vnto them: Have ye not redde how that he which made man at the beginninge made them man and woman
But at the fyrste creacion God made the man and woman.
and hath made of one bloud all nacions of men for to dwell on all the face of the erthe and hath assigned before how longe tyme and also the endes of their inhabitacion
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Your riches are corrupted,.... Either through disuse of them; and so the phrase is expressive of their tenaciousness, withholding that from themselves and others which is meet, and which is keeping riches for the owners thereof, to their hurt; or these are corrupted, and are corruptible things, fading and perishing, and will stand in no stead in the day of wrath, and therefore it is great weakness to put any trust and confidence in them:
and your garments are moth eaten; being neither wore by themselves, nor put upon the backs of others, as they should, but laid up in wardrobes, or in chests and coffers, and so became the repast of moths, and now good for nothing.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Your riches are corrupted - The word here rendered “corrupted” (σήπω sēpō) does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. It means, to cause to rot, to corrupt, to destroy. The reference here is to their hoarded treasures; and the idea is, that they had accumulated more than they needed for their own use; and that, instead of distributing them to do good to others, or employing them in any useful way, they kept them until they rotted or spoiled. It is to be remembered, that a considerable part of the treasures which a man in the East would lay up, consisted of perishable materials, as garments, grain, oil, etc. Such articles of property were often stored up, expecting that they would furnish a supply for many years, in case of the prevalence of famine or wars. Compare Luke 12:18-19. A suitable provision for the time to come cannot be forbidden; but the reference here is to cases in which great quantities had been laid up, perhaps while the poor were suffering, and which were kept until they became worthless.
Your garments are moth-eaten - The same idea substantially is expressed here in another form. As the fashions in the East did not change as they do with us, wealth consisted much in the garments that were laid up for show or for future use. See the notes at Matthew 6:19. Q. Curtius says that when Alexander the Great was going to take Persepolis, the riches of all Asia were gathered there together, which consisted not only of a great abundance of gold and silver, but also of garments, Lib. vi. c. 5. Horace tells us that when Lucullus the Roman was asked if he could lend a hundred garments for the theater, he replied that he had five thousand in his house, of which they were welcome to take part or all. Of course, such property would be liable to be moth-eaten; and the idea here is, that they had amassed a great amount of this kind of property which was useless to them, and which they kept until it became destroyed.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse James 5:2. Your riches are corrupted — σεσηπε. Are putrefied. The term πλουτος, riches, is to be taken here, not for gold, silver, or precious stones, (for these could not putrefy,) but for the produce of the fields and flocks, the different stores of grain, wine, and oil, which they had laid up in their granaries, and the various changes of raiment which they had amassed in their wardrobes.
