Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you. Your wealth is ruined: your clothes are moth-eaten; your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days! read more.
Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

Man wears out like something rotten,
like a moth-eaten garment.


> Verse ConceptsInsectsWasteMothsPeople RottingPossessions DecayingFood Decayingworms



how much more those who dwell in clay houses,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth!
Verse ConceptsFoundationsInsectsProperty, HousesMan, Insignificance OfMothsMetaphorical HousesCreatures From Dust

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon
or a booth set up by a watchman.
Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsSpidersDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of Creatures

In truth, the Lord God will help Me;
who will condemn Me?
Indeed, all of them will wear out like a garment;
a moth will devour them.
Verse ConceptsClothingHelpfulnessInsectsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormPeople Wearing OutNo CondemnationGod Helps

Man wears out like something rotten,
like a moth-eaten garment.


> Verse ConceptsInsectsWasteMothsPeople RottingPossessions DecayingFood Decayingworms


So I am like rot to Ephraim
and like decay to the house of Judah.
Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsPeople RottingPeople Eaten By Worm


"Don't collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don't break in and steal.



For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold, Verse ConceptsFutilityemptinessGoldMarketsRiches, Nature OfRiches, Description OfPossessions DecayingTransient WealthUseless EndeavourPeople Are CorruptibleMoney's Deficienciesfearlessliberationredeemed