Cross References

James 4:13

Contemporary English Version 1995

You should know better than to say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to the city. We will do business there for a year and make a lot of money!”

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Don't brag about tomorrow! Each day brings its own surprises.

I said to myself, “Have fun and enjoy yourself!” But this didn't make sense.

The time is coming when everyone will be ruined. Buying and selling will stop,

including ordinary people and priests, slaves and slave owners, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, the rich and the poor.

You rich people should cry and weep! Terrible things are going to happen to you.

It will be all the same if you are crying or laughing, or if you are buying or are completely broke.

Now I will let you know what I am going to do. I will cut down the hedge and tear down the wall. My vineyard will be trampled and left in ruins.

Let's go down and confuse them! We'll make them speak different languages, and they won't be able to understand each other.