James 4:14

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.

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13Go 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 gain:

15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

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Cross References

Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Job 14:1Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Psalms 89:47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

Psalms 102:3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

James 1:10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

1 Peter 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

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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