James 4:14

ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

In Context

13Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,

15instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.

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Cross References

Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Job 14:1Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Psalms 89:47Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

Psalms 102:3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

James 1:10and the rich in his humiliation, because as [the] grass's flower he will pass away.

1 Peter 4:7But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto 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 →

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