James 5:2

Literal Standard Version

your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your wealth has rotted and your clothes are moth-eaten.

King James Version (1611)
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments motheaten:

King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

English Standard Version
Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.

New American Standard Bible
Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.

New Century Version
Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have been eaten by moths.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.

Berean Standard Bible
Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.

Contemporary English Version
Your treasures have already rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.

Complete Jewish Bible
Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten;

Darby Translation
Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.

Easy-to-Read Version
Your riches will rot and be worth nothing. Your clothes will be eaten by moths.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten.

George Lamsa Translation
Your riches are destroyed and rotted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

Good News Translation
Your riches have rotted away, and your clothes have been eaten by moths.

Lexham English Bible
Your wealth has rotted, and your clothing has become moth-eaten.

Literal Translation
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.

American Standard Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

Bible in Basic English
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

Hebrew Names Version
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

International Standard Version
Your riches are rotten, your clothes have been eaten by moths,Job 1:13:28; Matthew 6:20; James 2:2;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Your riches are corrupt and stink, and your vestments are eaten of the moth,

Murdock Translation
For your wealth is spoiled and putrid; and your garments are moth-eaten:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Your riches is corrupt, your garmentes are motheaten:

English Revised Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

World English Bible
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

Weymouth's New Testament
Your treasures have rotted, and your piles of clothing are moth-eaten;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Youre richessis ben rotun, and youre clothis ben etun of mouytis.

Update Bible Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

Webster's Bible Translation
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

New English Translation
Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.

New King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

New Living Translation
Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags.

New Life Bible
Your riches are worth nothing. Your fine clothes are full of moth holes.

New Revised Standard
Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth-eaten, -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.

Revised Standard Version
Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Youre ryches is corrupte youre garmentes are motheaten.

Young's Literal Translation
your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Youre riches is corrupte, youre garmetes are motheaten.

Mace New Testament (1729)
your wealth is wasted, your wardrobe is devour'd by the worm,

Simplified Cowboy Version
Your money will rot and moths will eat your best clothes.

Contextual Overview

¹Go, now, you rich! Weep, howling over your miseries that are coming on [you]; ²your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;³your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them will be to you for a testimony, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days! ⁴Behold, the reward of the workmen cries out, of those who in-gathered your fields, which has been fraudulently kept back by you, and the exclamations of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the LORD of Hosts; ⁵you lived in luxury on the earth, and were wanton; you nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter; ⁶you condemned—you murdered the righteous; he does not resist you. ⁷Be patient, then, brothers, until the coming of the LORD; behold, the farmer expects the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until he may receive rain—early and latter; ⁸you also be patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the LORD has drawn near; ⁹do not murmur against one another, brothers, that you may not be condemned; behold, the Judge has stood before the door. ¹⁰Brothers, [as] an example of the suffering of evil and of patience, take the prophets who spoke in the Name of the LORD;

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
And God creates the man in His image; in the image of God He created him, a male and a female He created them.

Genesis 2:15
And YHWH God takes the man, and causes him to rest in the Garden of Eden, to serve it and to keep it.

Genesis 2:23
and the man says, "This at last! Bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!" For this is called Woman, for this has been taken from Man;

Malachi 2:15
And He did not make one [only], || And a remnant of the Spirit [is] for him. And what [is] the one [alone]! He is seeking a godly seed. And you have been watchful over your spirit, || And with the wife of your youth, || None deal treacherously.

Matthew 19:4
And He answering said to them, "Did you not read that He who made [them] from the beginning, made them a male and a female,

Mark 10:6
but from the beginning of the creation God made them a male and a female;

Acts 17:26
He also made every nation of man of one blood, to dwell on all the face of the earth—having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings—

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.