James 4:15

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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

In Context

14Yet 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

16But now you boast in your pretensions. All such ravrevanut (boastfulness) is ra'ah (evil, wickedness).

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Cross References

2 Samuel 15:25And HaMelech said unto Tzadok, Carry back the Aron HaElohim into the Ir; if I shall find chen (grace) in the eyes of Hashem, He will bring me again, and show me both Him, and His habitation;

Lamentations 3:37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, 1 when Adonoi commandeth it not? 1

Romans 1:10Always making techinnah (supplication) and petitioning that I might somehow now at last efsher (perhaps) succeed im yirtzeh Hashem (if the L-rd wills) to make my way to you.

1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come shortly to you, im yirtzeh Hashem (if the L-rd wills), and I will find out not the speech of the ones having been puffed up but the ko'ach (power).

Hebrews 6:3And this we shall do, im yirtzeh Hashem (if the L-rd wills).

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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