I will be left to decay like something rotten and like a garment that is being eaten by moths.
James 5:2 - Catholic Public Domain Version Your riches have been corrupted, and your garments have been eaten by moths. Matoleo zaidiKing 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten. English Standard Version 2016 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. |
I will be left to decay like something rotten and like a garment that is being eaten by moths.
I have not concealed your justice within my heart. I have spoken your truth and your salvation. I have not concealed your mercy and your truth from a great assembly.
Behold, the Lord God is my helper. Who is the one who would condemn me? Behold, they will all be worn away like a garment; the moth will devour them.
For the worm will consume them like a garment, and the moth will devour them like wool. But my salvation will be forever, and my justice will be from generation to generation.
A partridge has hatched eggs that she did not lay; a man has gathered riches, but without judgment. In the midst of his days, he will leave it all behind, and he will be foolish concerning his very end."
Sell what you possess, and give alms. Make for yourselves purses that will not wear out, a treasure that will not fall short, in heaven, where no thief approaches, and no moth corrupts.
For if a man has entered your assembly having a gold ring and splendid apparel, and if a poor man has also entered, in dirty clothing,
unto an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance, which is reserved for you in heaven.