James 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. vFor what is your life? 5It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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.
οἵτινες οὐκ ἐπίστασθε τὸ τῆς αὔριον. ποία γὰρ ἡ ζωὴ ὑμῶν; ἀτμὶς γάρ ἐστιν ἡ πρὸς ὀλίγον φαινομένη, ἔπειτα δὲ ἀφανιζομένη.
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Job 7:7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Proverbs 3:28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Isaiah 40:6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
1 Corinthians 7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
James 1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
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Job 7:7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
whether ye yourselves shall continue till then, or what else shall then be, or not be. In vain do ye boast of whole years, when ye cannot command the events of one day.
This question implies contempt, as 1Sa 25:10 Psa 144:3,4.
like a vapour, frail, uncertain, and of short continuance; and then how vain are those counsels and purposes that are built upon no more sure a foundation than your own lives.