James 4:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

James 4:14 Cross References

1 Peter 1:24

For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And mine age is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

1 John 2:17

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

Psalm 102:3

For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

James 1:10

and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Psalm 89:47

O remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

1 Peter 4:7

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

Isaiah 38:12

Mine age is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up like a weaver my life; he will cut me off from the loom: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

Psalm 78:39

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

Psalm 144:4

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

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?

2 Samuel 19:34

And Barzillai said unto the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?