James 4:14 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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)

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

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

consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

James 4:14 Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34

And Barzil´lai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

Psalm 102:3

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

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalm 78:39

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

Proverbs 27:1

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Isaiah 2:22

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Isaiah 38:12

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

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 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

1 John 2:17

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.