One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
James 5:2 - New Revised Standard Version Your riches have rotted, and your clothes 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. |
One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
“You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah
It is the Lord God who helps me; who will declare me guilty? All of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my deliverance will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.
Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in mid-life it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.
Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim, and like rottenness to the house of Judah.
Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in,
and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,