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.
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James 5:3
3 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.