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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 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

13Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

15Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that.”

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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 →

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