And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
James 5:2 - King James 2000 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your abundant wealth has rotted and is ruined, and your [many] garments have become moth-eaten. American Standard Version (1901) Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Common English Bible Your riches have rotted. Moths have destroyed your clothes. Catholic Public Domain Version Your riches have been corrupted, and your garments have been eaten by moths. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten. |
And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
Sell what you have, and give alms; provide yourselves purses which grow not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts.
For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in fine apparel, and there come in also a poor man in shabby clothing;
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you,