Parallel Verses
Amplified
Your wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [fine] clothes have become moth-eaten.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Holman Bible
Your wealth is ruined and your clothes are moth-eaten.
International Standard Version
Your riches are rotten, your clothes have been eaten by moths,
A Conservative Version
Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
American Standard Version
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
An Understandable Version
Your wealth has rotted and moths have eaten your clothing.
Anderson New Testament
Your wealth is corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten:
Bible in Basic English
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
Common New Testament
Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Daniel Mace New Testament
your wealth is wasted, your wardrobe is devour'd by the worm,
Darby Translation
Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
Godbey New Testament
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten:
Goodspeed New Testament
Your wealth has rotted, your clothes are moth-eaten,
John Wesley New Testament
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Julia Smith Translation
Your riches have become corrupted, and your garments have been moth eaten;
King James 2000
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your wealth has rotted, and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
Modern King James verseion
Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Your riches is corrupt, your garments are motheaten.
Moffatt New Testament
your wealth lies rotting, and your clothes are moth-eaten;
Montgomery New Testament
For your riches lie rotting, and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
NET Bible
Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
New Heart English Bible
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Noyes New Testament
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are become motheaten;
Sawyer New Testament
Your riches have decayed, and your garments are moth-eaten,
The Emphasized Bible
Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth-eaten, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Your wealth is corrupted, and your robes are moth-eaten.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Your riches have wasted away, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.
Webster
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;
Williams New Testament
Your wealth has rotted, your clothes are moth-eaten,
World English Bible
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Worrell New Testament
Your wealth has become corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
Worsley New Testament
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten:
Youngs Literal Translation
your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
Themes
Condemnation » Increased by » Oppression
Garments » Of the rich » Often moth-eaten
Topics
Interlinear
himation
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 5:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Woes On The Rich Who Oppress Others
1 Come [quickly] now, you rich [who lack true faith and hoard and misuse your resources], weep and howl over the miseries [the woes, the judgments] that are coming upon you. 2 Your wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [fine] clothes have become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up your treasure in the last days [when it will do you no good].
Cross References
Job 13:28
While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Isaiah 50:9
In fact, the Lord God helps Me;
Who is he who condemns Me [as guilty]?
Indeed, they will all wear out like a garment;
The moth will eat them.
Matthew 6:19-20
Psalm 39:11
“With rebukes You discipline man for sin;
You consume like a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]. Selah.
Isaiah 51:8
“For the moth will eat them like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness and justice [faithfully promised] will exist forever,
And My salvation to all generations.”
Jeremiah 17:11
“Like the partridge that hatches eggs which she has not laid,
So is he who makes a fortune in ways that are unjust.
It will be lost to him before his days are over,
And in the end he will be [nothing but] a fool.”
Hosea 5:12
Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim
And like dry rot to the house of Judah [in My judgment against them].
Luke 12:33
James 2:2
For if a man comes into your
1 Peter 1:4
[born anew] into an inheritance which is imperishable [beyond the reach of change] and undefiled and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,