Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
James 5:2 - Revised Version 1885 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. |
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah
Behold, the Lord GODwill help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, they all shall wax 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 for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.
As the partridge that gathereth young which she hath not brought forth, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Sell that ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.
For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing;
unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,