James 4:14

when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

13Come, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go to this or that city, and spend a year there and carry on a successful business,"

15Instead of that you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we shall live and do this or that."

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Cross References

James 1:10but a rich man should rejoice in being brought low, for like flowers among the herbage rich men will pass away.

1 Peter 4:7But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to 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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