James 4:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

Cross References

1 Peter 1:24

For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. Selah.

1 John 2:17

And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

Psalm 102:3

My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.

James 1:10

But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

Psalm 89:47

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;

Isaiah 38:12

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

Psalm 78:39

So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

Proverbs 27:1

Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

Isaiah 2:22

Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

2 Samuel 19:34

And Barzillai said to the king, How much of my life is still before me, for me to go up to Jerusalem with the king?