James 4:14
Who knows what will happen tomorrow, and what is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then disappears.
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In Context
15Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that.”
Cross References
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle; 1 they pass without hope. 1
Job 14:1Man, who is born of woman, 1 lives only a few days and is full of trouble. 1
Psalms 89:47Oh, think about how short my time is, 1 and for what uselessness you have created all the children of mankind! 1
Psalms 102:3For my days pass away like smoke, 1 and my bones burn like fire. 1
James 1:10but the rich man of his low position, because he will pass away as a wild flower in the grass.
1 Peter 4:7The end of all things is coming near. Therefore be of sound mind, and be sober in your thinking for the sake of 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 →