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James 5:1-2 KJV
James · chapter 5 · verses 1–2
1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.James 5:1-2 · King James Version
James 5:1-2 in context
1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Commentary
Cross references
- Proverbs 11:28
- 1 Timothy 6:9-10
- Proverbs 11:4
- James 1:11
- Luke 6:24-25
- Jeremiah 9:23
- Luke 12:16-21
- Matthew 6:19-20
- Job 13:28
Key words (Strong's)
- corruptedsēpōto make corrupt, to destroy, to become corrupt, corrupted, rottenG4595 →
- miseriestalaipōriahardship, trouble, calamity, miseryG5004 →
- garmentshimationa garment , garmentsG2440 →
- richesploutosriches, wealth, abundance of external possessions, fulness, abundance, plenitude, a goodG4149 →
- weepklaiōto mourn, weep, lament, weeping as the sign of pain and grief for the thing signified…G2799 →
- howlololyzōto howl, wail, lament, of a loud cry whether for joy or of griefG3649 →
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The apostle is here addressing first sinners and then saints. I. Let us consider the address to sinners; and here we find James seconding what his great Master had said: Woe unto you that are rich; for you have received your consolation, Luk 6:24.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11