James 4:13-14

Boasting About Tomorrow

¹³ Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow ₁ we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; ¹⁴ whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? _r It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Cross References
Job 7:7
Oh, remember that my life is a breath! My eye will never again see good.
Psalms 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth.
1 Peter 1:24
Because "All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away.

Matthew Henry Concise

Easton's Bible Dictionary

James 4:13

Strong's Concordance

James 4:13

Go toG33 now,G3568 ye that sayG3004, To dayG4594 orG2532 to morrowG839 we will goG4198 intoG1519 suchG3592 a city,G4172 andG2532 continueG4160 (5661)G4160 thereG1563 aG1520 year,G1763 andG2532 buy and sellG1710 (5667)G1710 , andG2532 get gainG2770 (5661)G2770:

Notes

James 4:13 - 14

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit". Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. ...

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