James 4:14
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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In Context
15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both 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, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalms 89:47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
Psalms 102:3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
James 1:10and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
1 Peter 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
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 →