James 4:16
But now you boast in your pretensions. All such ravrevanut (boastfulness) is ra'ah (evil, wickedness).
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
In Context
17To the one having da'as, therefore, knowing to do tov and not doing it, to him it is chet.
Cross References
Psalms 52:7El shall likewise demolish thee for netzach (eternity), 1 He shall break thee, and pluck thee out of thy ohel, 1 and uproot thee out of the Eretz Chayyim. 1 Selah 1
Proverbs 27:1Boast not thyself of yom makhar (tomorrow), 1 for thou hast no da'as of what a yom may bring forth. 1
Isaiah 47:10For thou hast trusted in thy ra'ah (wickedness); 1 thou hast said: None seeth me. 1 Thy chochmah and thy da'as, 1 it hath perverted thee; 1 and thou hast said in thine lev: 1 I am, and none else beside me. 1
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not have da'as that a little chametz all the mixture leavens?
Revelation 18:7As she gave kavod (glory) to herself and lived in luxury, so give her an equal measure of torment and agmat nefesh (grief), because in her lev (heart) she says, ‘I sit as a malkah (queen) and not an almanah (widow), and I will never see agmat nefesh (grief).’ + 18:7 Ezek 28:2-8; Ps 10:6; Isa 47:7,8; Zeph 2:15
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 →