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Rich Oppressors Will Be Judged

1 Come now, you arich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you!  
2 Your ariches are corrupted, and byour garments are moth-eaten.  
3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. aYou have heaped up treasure in the last days.  
4 Indeed athe wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and bthe cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of1 Sabaoth.  
5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and1 luxury; you have fattened your hearts3 as in a day of slaughter.  
6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
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James 5:2

Riches (o ploutov). Masculine singular, but occasionally neuter to ploutov in nominative and accusative (II Corinthians 8:2). Apparently pleotov fulness (from pleov full, pimplhmi to fill). "Wealth."

Are corrupted (seshpen). Second perfect active indicative of shpw (root sap as in saprov, rotten), to corrupt, to destroy, here intransitive "has rotted." Only here in N.T. On the worthlessness of mere wealth see Matthew 6:19, Matthew 6:24.

Were moth-eaten (shtobrwta gegonen). "Have become (second perfect indicative of ginomai, singular number, though imatia, neuter plural, treated collectively) moth-eaten" (shtobrwta, late and rare compound from shv, moth, Matthew 6:19 f. and brwtov, verbal adjective of bibrwskw to eat John 6:13. This compound found only here, Job 13:28, Sibyll. Orac. Proem. 64). Rich robes as heirlooms, but moth-eaten. Vivid picture. Witness the 250 "lost millionaires" in the United States in 1931 as compared with 1929. Riches have wings.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing James 5:2:

Luke 6:24
James 4:6
James 5:1
James 5:7

 

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