Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. 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. read more.
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. You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm. Verse ConceptsInsectsWasteMothsPeople RottingPossessions DecayingFood Decayingworms



How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect; Verse ConceptsFoundationsInsectsProperty, HousesMan, Insignificance OfMothsMetaphorical HousesCreatures From Dust

His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent. Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsSpidersDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of Creatures

See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm. Verse ConceptsClothingHelpfulnessInsectsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormPeople Wearing OutNo CondemnationGod Helps

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm. Verse ConceptsInsectsWasteMothsPeople RottingPossessions DecayingFood Decayingworms


And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah. Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsPeople RottingPeople Eaten By Worm


Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away. But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:



Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction, Verse ConceptsFutilityemptinessGoldMarketsRiches, Nature OfRiches, Description OfPossessions DecayingTransient WealthUseless EndeavourPeople Are CorruptibleMoney's Deficienciesfearlessliberationredeemed