James 4:14
Whereas you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
Cross References
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,and are spent without hope.
Job 14:1"Man, who is born of a woman,is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalms 89:47Remember how short my time is!For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
Psalms 102:3For my days consume away like smoke.My bones are burned as a firebrand.
James 1:10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
1 Peter 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in 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 →