James 5:2

Mace New Testament

your wealth is wasted, your wardrobe is devour'd by the worm,

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

Darby Translation
Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments 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;

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Young's Literal Translation
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 English Translation
Your riches have rotted and your clothing has 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;

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

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.

Christian Standard Bible®
Your wealth is ruined and your clothes are moth-eaten.

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:

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹ As for you that are rich: weep, and lament the miserys that are falling upon you. ² your wealth is wasted, your wardrobe is devour'd by the worm, ³ and your gold and silver by rust: that rust shall convict you: that rust shall corrode your flesh like a caustic, which you have treasur'd up against the last days. ⁴ hark! what a noise there is of hire, of which you cheated the labourers, who gather'd in your harvest! the cries of the reapers have reach'd even the Lord of the celestial militia. ⁵ you have liv'd on the earth in voluptuousness and luxury: you have indulg'd your selves as in a day of sacrifice: ⁶ you have condemn'd the just, you have put him to death, though he did not oppose you. ⁷ As for you, my brethren, bear your sufferings with constancy, till the advent of the Lord. the farmer, from the prospect of a golden crop, patiently expects the showers of the spring and the autumn. ⁸ be you equally patient, and exercise your fortitude, for the advent of the Lord is nigh. ⁹ don't repine, my brethren, against one another, for fear you should be condemn'd. behold, the judge is at the gate. ¹⁰ let the prophets, my brethren, who were commission'd by the Lord, be your examples; suffer persecution with constancy like them.

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

Matthew 19:4
and he answered them, have ye not read, that when the creator, at the beginning, made male and female,

Mark 10:6
for in the beginning of the world God formed them male and female.

Acts 17:26
he he has deduced all mankind from one parent, to inhabit the surface of the whole earth, having pre-establish'd the appointed periods, and the boundarys of their dominions:

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.