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Yakobus 5:2

Kekayaanmu sudah busuk, dan pakaianmu telah dimakan ngengat!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Moth;   Rich, the;   Riches;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Insects;   Moths;   The Topic Concordance - Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Condemnation;   Garments;   Moth, the;   Riches;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Garments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Justice;   Lending;   Mission;   Wealth;   Work;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Dress;   James, the General Epistle of;   Moth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Insects;   James, the Letter;   Rust;   Violence;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moth;   Wealth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Animals;   James ;   James Epistle of;   Metaphor;   Wealth;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Moth,;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Garments;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Arment;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - James, Epistle of;   Moth;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 26;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
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Contextual Overview

1 Go to nowe ye riche men, weepe and howle on your wretchednesse that shall come vpon you. 2 Your riches is corrupt, your garmentes are motheaten: 3 Your golde and siluer is cankred, and the rust of them shalbe a witnesse agaynst you, and shall eate your fleshe as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure together in your last dayes. 4 Beholde, the hire of labourers, which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which hire is of you kept backe by fraude, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lorde Sabaoth. 5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and ben wanton: Ye haue nourisshed your heartes, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye haue condempned and kylled the iust, and he hath not resisted you. 7 Be patient therfore brethren, vnto the commyng of the Lorde. Beholde, the husbandman wayteth for the precious fruite of the earth, and hath long patience thervpon, vntill he receaue the early and the later rayne. 8 Be ye also patient therfore, and settle your heartes, for the commyng of the Lorde draweth nye. 9 Grudge not one agaynst another brethren, lest ye be dampned: Beholde, the iudge standeth before the doore. 10 Take my brethren, the prophetes for an ensample of suffering aduersitie, and of patience, which spake in the name of the Lorde.

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

Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his owne image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.
Genesis 2:15
And the Lord God toke the man, and put hym in the garden of Eden, that he myght worke it, and kepe it.
Genesis 2:23
And man saide: this is nowe bone of my bones, and fleshe of my fleshe, she shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.
Malachi 2:15
And did not he make one? yet had he aboundaunce of spiritie: And wherfore one? Because he sought a godly seede: therefore kepe your selues in your spirite, and let none transgresse against the wyfe of his youth.
Matthew 19:4
He aunswered and sayde vnto them: Haue ye not read, that he which created at the begynnyng, made them male and female,
Mark 10:6
But from the begynnyng of the creation, God made them male & female.
Acts 17:26
And hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all ye face of the earth, & hath determined the tymes before appoynted, and also the boundes of their habitation:

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.


 
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