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James 5:2
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
James 5:2 · Bible in Basic English
James 5:2 in other translations
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
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In context
1 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
3 Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
5 You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
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