James 4:14
men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
15in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.
Cross References
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 14:1Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalms 89:47O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Psalms 102:3For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
James 1:10but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away.
1 Peter 4:7But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.
Matthew Henry on James 4:12-17
Caution against Slander; Caution against Presumption. ( a. d. 61.) 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get… Read the whole commentary →