James 4:14

New English Translation

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34

Barzillai replied to the king, “How many days do I have left to my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Psalm 102:3

For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.

Psalm 144:4

People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

Psalm 39:5

Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

Psalm 89:47

Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

Proverbs 27:1

Do not boast about tomorrow; for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

Isaiah 2:22

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

James 1:10

But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

1 Peter 4:7

For the culmination of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of prayer.

1 John 2:17

And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.