Tiago 5:2

2 As vossas riquezas estão apodrecidas, e as vossas vestes estão roídas pela traça.

Tiago 5:2 Meaning and Commentary

James 5:2

Your riches are corrupted
Either through disuse of them; and so the phrase is expressive of their tenaciousness, withholding that from themselves and others which is meet, and which is keeping riches for the owners thereof, to their hurt; or these are corrupted, and are corruptible things, fading and perishing, and will stand in no stead in the day of wrath, and therefore it is great weakness to put any trust and confidence in them:

and your garments are moth eaten;
being neither wore by themselves, nor put upon the backs of others, as they should, but laid up in wardrobes, or in chests and coffers, and so became the repast of moths, and now good for nothing.

Tiago 5:2 In-Context

1 Eia agora, vós ricos, chorai e pranteai, por causa das desgraças que vos sobrevirão.

2 As vossas riquezas estão apodrecidas, e as vossas vestes estão roídas pela traça.

3 O vosso ouro e a vossa prata estão enferrujados; e a sua ferrugem dará testemunho contra vós, e devorará as vossas carnes como fogo. Entesourastes para os últimos dias.

4 Eis que o salário que fraudulentamente retivestes aos trabalhadores que ceifaram os vossos campos clama, e os clamores dos ceifeiros têm chegado aos ouvidos do Senhor dos exércitos.

5 Deliciosamente vivestes sobre a terra, e vos deleitastes; cevastes os vossos corações no dia da matança.