James 4:14

who does not know the thing of tomorrow; for what is your life? For it is a vapor that is appearing for a little [while], and then is vanishing;

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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, now, you who are saying, “Today and tomorrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain,”

15instead, you [ought] to say, “If the LORD may will, we will live, and do this or that”;

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Cross References

Job 7:6My days swifter than a loom, || And they are consumed without hope.

Job 14:1“Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

Psalms 89:47Remember how [short] my lifetime [is]. Why have You created in vain || All the sons of men?

Psalms 102:3For my days have been consumed in smoke, || And my bones have burned as a firebrand.

James 1:10but the rich in his becoming low, because he will pass away as a flower of grass;

1 Peter 4:7Now the end of all things has come near; be sober-minded, then, and be sober in [your] 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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