en_tn_condensed/jas/05/03.md

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# Your gold and your silver have become tarnished
"Your gold and silver will become tarnished"
# have become tarnished ... their rust
"are ruined ... their ruined condition"
# their rust will be a witness against you. It
"and when God judges you, your ruined treasures will be like someone who accuses you in court. Their corrosion"
# will consume ... like fire
Here the corrosion is spoken of as if it were a fire that will burn up their owners.
# your flesh
Here "flesh" stands for the physical body.
# fire
The idea of fire here is meant to lead people to remember that fire often stands for God's punishment that will come on all the wicked.
# for the last days
"for when God is about to judge you"