James 5:2

King James Version (KJV)

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

Translations

James 5:2 - Amplified Bible

Your abundant wealth has rotted {and} is ruined, and your [many] garments have become moth-eaten.

James 5:2 - American Standard Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

James 5:2 - Bible in Basic English

Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

James 5:2 - Darby Bible

Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.

James 5:2 - English Standard Version

Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.

James 5:2 - King James Version

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

James 5:2 - La Biblia de las Americas

Vuestras riquezas se han podrido y vuestras ropas están comidas de polilla.

James 5:2 - The Message

James 5:2 - New American Standard Bible

Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.

James 5:2 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

Sus riquezas se han podrido y sus ropas están comidas de polilla.

James 5:2 - World English Bible

Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

James 5:2 - Young's Living Translation

your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

James 5:2 - Additional Comments

Think who the rich were in the times of Christ. They were wealthy either because of their political position or they were leading merchants. Consider what it took to maintain a high political position, or to maintain success as a merchant. Laws back then were not able to protect people from correct contracts and money exchanges, so for the wealthy that had to be a way of life. Therefore, to be rich probably meant to be corrupt. See why in verses 4-6.
"Your garments are moth-eaten" meant something similar to when Jesus referred to them as "white washed tombs" (Matt 23:27), because they "appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness." The outside was attractive, finished, but inside there was rotten decay.

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