James 4:14 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁴ when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears –

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ You don’t really know about tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for only a short while before it vanishes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

James 4:14 Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34

But Barzillai said to the sovereign, “How many are the days of my life, that I should go up with the sovereign to Yerushalayim?

Psalm 102:3

For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:5

See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.”

Psalm 78:39

For He remembered that they were but flesh, A passing breath that does not return.

Psalm 89:47

Please remember how short my time is; Why should you have created all the sons of men for naught?

Proverbs 27:1

Do not boast of tomorrow, For you do not know what a day brings forth.

Isaiah 2:22

Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for in what is he to be reckoned upon?

Isaiah 38:12

“My dwelling is plucked up, taken from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom. From day to night You make an end of me.

James 1:10

but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he shall pass away.

1 Peter 1:24

because “All flesh is as grass, and all the esteem of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all has drawn near. Therefore be sober-minded, and be attentive in the prayers.

1 John 2:17

And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but the one doing the desire of Elohim remains forever.