James 4:14

Yet you do not even have da'as of what tomorrowʼs “yom” may bring. Look at your life! Are you not an ed (mist), appearing a short time, then indeed disappearing? + 4:14 Job 7:7; Ps 39:5; 102:3; 144:4; Isa 2:22

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

13Come now, you who say, “Hayom (today) or makhar (tomorrow) we will go into this or that city and we will do business there a year and will sell and make a revach (profit).”

15Instead of this, you ought to say “Im yirtzeh Hashem” (if the L-rd wills) “we will live, also we will do this or that.”

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Cross References

Job 7:6My yamim are swifter than a weaverʼs shuttle, 1 and are spent without tikveh. 1

Job 14:1Adam that is born of isha 1 is of few yamim and full of rogez (unrest). 1

Psalms 89:47How long, Hashem? Wilt Thou hide Thyself lanetzach (forever)? 1 Shall Thy wrath burn like eish? 1

Psalms 102:3Hide not Thy face from me in the yom tzar (day of distress); 1 incline Thine ear unto me; 1 in the yom when I call, answer me speedily. 1

James 1:10And let the Ach b'Moshiach who has osher (riches) glory in his bizyoinos (humiliation), in the da'as that Hashem will bring him low, because KOL HABASAR KHATZIR + 1:10 Isa 40:6,7 (All flesh is grass) and so he likewise will vanish. + 1:10 Job 14:2; Ps 103:15,16

1 Peter 4:7The Ketz (End) of all things now has drawn near. Let your thinking be one of zililut da'as (sober-mindedness), therefore, and exercise kibush hayetzer (self-control), for the sake of your tefillos.

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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