James 5:2
“Your riches are corrupted, and your garments motheaten:”
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James 5:2 Context
1Goe to now, yee rich men, weepe and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you. 2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments motheaten: 3Your gold and siluer is cankered, and the rust of them shall bee a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh as it were fire: ye haue heaped treasure together for the last dayes. 4Beholde, the hire of the labourers which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which is of you kept backe by fraud, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lord of Sabaoth.
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Other Translations for James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
- King James Version
Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
- Basic English Bible
Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
- Darby Bible
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
- Webster's Bible
Your treasures have rotted, and your piles of clothing are moth-eaten;
- Weymouth Bible
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
- World English Bible
Youre richessis ben rotun, and youre clothis ben etun of mouytis.
- Wycliffe Bible
your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for James 5:2
5:2 The riches of the ancients consisted much in large stores of corn, and of costly apparel.
People's Bible Notes for James 5:2
Jas 5:2 Your riches are corrupted. Even their riches in which they trusted are "corrupted", or spoiled. Much of the wealth of that period was in stores of various kinds which time or improper care would destroy. Your garments are motheaten. The rich gathered great stores of garments, carpets, etc. See Mt 22:11,12. These would be liable to be eaten by moths if not used.