James 5:2

James 5:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
• New International Version (NIV)Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

Context of James 5:2

1Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that [are] coming upon [you]. Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten. 3Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in [the] last days. 4Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of [the] Lord of sabaoth.

James 5:2 word by word

ὁ πλοῦτος ὑμῶν σέσηπεν καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια ὑμῶν σητόβρωτα γέγονεν·Read the interlinear

• wealthπλοῦτοςploutos · richesG4149
• becomeγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• garmentsἱμάτιονhimation · clothingG2440

Cross-references for James 5:2

• Jeremiah 17:11[As] the partridge sitteth on [eggs] it hath not laid, [so] is he that getteth riches and not by right: in the midst of his days shall he leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.
• Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;
• Luke 12:33Sell what ye possess and give alms; make to yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure which does not fail in the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy.
• 1 Peter 1:4to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance, reserved in [the] heavens for you,
• James 2:2for if there come unto your synagogue a man with a gold ring in splendid apparel, and a poor man also come in in vile apparel,
• Job 13:28One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
• Psalms 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.
• Isaiah 50:9Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Behold, they all shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
• Isaiah 51:8For 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.
• Hosea 5:12And I will be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

Commentaries on James 5:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Your riches are corrupted - · Are putrefied. The term , 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.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Your riches are corrupted - The word here rendered “corrupted” ( ́ 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2The wealth and fine clothes are so excessive that they decay from not being used. Their ruin is a sign of the anticipated judgment.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. corrupted--about to be destroyed through God's curse on your oppression, whereby your riches are accumulated (Jas 5:4). Calvin thinks the sense is, Your riches perish without being of any use either to others or even to yourselves, for instance, your garments which are moth-eaten in your chests. garments ... moth-eaten--referring to Mt 6:19, 20.Read the comment

Topics related to James 5:2

• Moth
• Rich, the
• Riches
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Convert
• Grudge
• Howl
• Nourish
• Pitiful
• Tender
• Wanton
• Moth
• Dress

Commentaries on James 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings