Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. New Living Translation Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags. English Standard Version Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Berean Standard Bible Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. Berean Literal Bible Your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten. King James Bible Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. New King James Version Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. New American Standard Bible Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. NASB 1995 Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. NASB 1977 Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Legacy Standard Bible Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Amplified Bible Your wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [fine] clothes have become moth-eaten. Christian Standard Bible Your wealth has rotted and your clothes are moth-eaten. Holman Christian Standard Bible Your wealth is ruined and your clothes are moth-eaten. American Standard Version Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Aramaic Bible in Plain English For your wealth is decayed and stinks, and your garments are eaten by moths. Contemporary English Version Your treasures have already rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Douay-Rheims Bible Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten. English Revised Version Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. GOD'S WORD® Translation Your riches have decayed, and your clothes have been eaten by moths. Good News Translation Your riches have rotted away, and your clothes have been eaten by moths. International Standard Version Your riches are rotten, your clothes have been eaten by moths, Literal Standard Version your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; Majority Standard Bible Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. New American Bible Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, NET Bible Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten. New Revised Standard Version Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. New Heart English Bible Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. Webster's Bible Translation Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Weymouth New Testament Your treasures have rotted, and your piles of clothing are moth-eaten; World English Bible Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. Young's Literal Translation your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Warning to the Rich1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. 2Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. 3Your 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.… Cross References Job 13:28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment. Isaiah 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. Matthew 6:19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. Treasury of Scripture Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your riches. Jeremiah 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. 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: … Luke 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. your garments. James 2:2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; Job 13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. Psalm 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. Jump to Previous Clothes Clothing Corrupted Eaten Garments Holes Insects Moth-Eaten Moths Piles Riches Rotted Rotten Treasures Unclean WealthJump to Next Clothes Clothing Corrupted Eaten Garments Holes Insects Moth-Eaten Moths Piles Riches Rotted Rotten Treasures Unclean WealthJames 5 1. Rich oppressors are to fear God's vengeance.7. We ought to be patient in afflictions, after the example of the prophets, and Job; 12. to forbear swearing; 13. to pray in adversity, to sing in prosperity; 14. to acknowledge mutually our several faults, to pray one for another; 19. and to correct a straying brother. (2) Your riches are corrupted . . .--As expanded in the eloquent gloss of Bishop Wordsworth, "Your wealth is mouldering in corruption, and your garments, stored up in vain superfluity, are become moth-eaten: although they may still glitter brightly in your eyes, and may dazzle men by their brilliance, yet they are in fact already cankered; they are loathsome in God's sight; the Divine anger has breathed upon them and blighted them; they are already withered and blasted." (Comp. Matthew 6:19.)Verse 2. - Description of the miseries that are coming upon them. The perfects (σέσηπε... γέγονεν) are probably to be explained as "prophetic," in accordance with a common Hebrew idiom (see Driver on the 'Tenses of the Hebrew Verb,' § 14; and cf. Winer, 'Grammar of New Testament Greek,' p. 342: "The perfect does not stand for a present or future, but the case indicated by the apostle in ταλαιπωρίαις ὑμῶν ταῖς εηπερχομέναις is viewed as already present, and consequently the σήπειν of the riches as already completed"). For an instance of the prophetic perfect, used as here after ὀλούζείν, see Isaiah 23:1, 14," Howl.... for your stronghold has been wasted." The miseries coming upon the rich are thus announced to be the destruction of everything in virtue of which they were styled rich. Their costly garments, in a great store of which the wealth of an Eastern largely consists, should become moth-eaten. Their gold and silver should be rusted. Bengel notes on this passage: "Scripta haec suut paucis annis ante obsidionem Hierosolymorum;" and certainly the best commentary upon it is to be found in the terrible account given by Josephus of the sufferings and miseries which came upon the Jews during the war and siege of Jerusalem. The Jewish historian has become the unconscious witness to the fulfillment of the prophecies of our Lord and his apostle. Σέσηπεν: only here in the New Testament; in the LXX., Job 16:7. Σητόβρωτα is also an ἄπαξ λεγόμενον in the New Testament; in LXX. used also of garments in Job 13:28. Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Yourὑμῶν (hymōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. riches πλοῦτος (ploutos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 4149: From the base of pletho; wealth, i.e. money, possessions, or abundance, richness, valuable bestowment. have rotted σέσηπεν (sesēpen) Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 4595: To cause to rot, make corrupt. Apparently a primary verb; to putrefy, i.e. perish. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. moths have eaten σητόβρωτα (sētobrōta) Adjective - Nominative Neuter Plural Strong's 4598: Moth-eaten. From ses and a derivative of bibrosko; moth-eaten. your ὑμῶν (hymōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. clothes. ἱμάτια (himatia) Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural Strong's 2440: A long flowing outer garment, tunic. Neuter of a presumed derivative of ennumi; a dress. Links James 5:2 NIVJames 5:2 NLT James 5:2 ESV James 5:2 NASB James 5:2 KJV James 5:2 BibleApps.com James 5:2 Biblia Paralela James 5:2 Chinese Bible James 5:2 French Bible James 5:2 Catholic Bible NT Letters: James 5:2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments (Ja Jas. Jam) |
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