James 5:3 Parallel Translations

Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be used as evidence against you. Like fire, it will destroy your body. You have stored up riches in these last days.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Your 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.

ASV:

Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.

BBE:

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.

DBY:

Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days.

ERV:

Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.

WEY:

your gold and your silver have become covered with rust, and the rust on them will give evidence against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded up wealth in these last days.

WBS:

Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have amassed treasure for the last days.

WEB:

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

YLT:

your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!

James 5:3 Cross References

XREF:

James 5:7 Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains.

James 5:8 You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered. Rusted from disuse. These metals do not literally rust, but do tarnish from long disuse. The idea is that they show they have been hoarded, not used.
And the rust of them shall be a witness against you. The tarnish shows that you have hoarded instead of using.
And shall eat your flesh as it were fire. They shall punish you, as though heated by fire and eating into your flesh. This hoarded wealth will curse the possessor.
Ye have heaped up treasure. Instead of laying up treasure in heaven you have continued to pile up earthly treasure to the last, a matter of extreme folly.
For the last days. What James then thought of as the last days, the end of his nation, country and Jerusalem, was close at hand.

WES:

5:3 The canker of them - Your perishing stores and motheaten garments. Will be a testimony against you - Of your having buried those talents in the earth, instead of improving them according to your Lord's will. And will eat your flesh as fire - Will occasion you as great torment as if fire were consuming your flesh. Ye have laid up treasure in the last days - When it is too late; when you have no time to enjoy them.

MHC:

5:1-6 Public troubles are most grievous to those who live in pleasure, and are secure and sensual, though all ranks suffer deeply at such times. All idolized treasures will soon perish, except as they will rise up in judgment against their possessors. Take heed of defrauding and oppressing; and avoid the very appearance of it. God does not forbid us to use lawful pleasures; but to live in pleasure, especially sinful pleasure, is a provoking sin. Is it no harm for people to unfit themselves for minding the concerns of their souls, by indulging bodily appetites? The just may be condemned and killed; but when such suffer by oppressors, this is marked by God. Above all their other crimes, the Jews had condemned and crucified that Just One who had come among them, even Jesus Christ the righteous.

CONC:

Amassed Burning Canker Cankered Consume Corroded Corrosion Covered Eat Eaten Evidence Fire Flesh Gold Heaped Hoarded Laid Rotted Rust Rusted Silver Store Stored Testify Testimony Treasure Waste Wasted Wealth Witness

Amassed Burning Canker Consume Covered Eat Eaten Evidence Fire Flesh Gold Heaped Hoarded Laid Rotted Rust Silver Store Stored Testify Testimony Together Treasure Waste Wasted Wealth Witness

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