“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.”
Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days — the personification of corrosion as witness (martyreō) against the wealthy emphasizes the self-accusatory nature of hoarded riches. The metaphor of corrosion eating flesh like fire suggests that the accumulation of wealth becomes a consuming judgment against the hoarder. The phrase 'in the last days' (en eschatais hēmerais) places this accumulation within the context of approaching eschatological judgment.
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