James 4:13

New Living Translation

Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.”

Cross References

Genesis 11:7

Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Proverbs 27:1

Don’t brag about tomorrow, since you don’t know what the day will bring.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, “Come on, let’s try pleasure. Let’s look for the ‘good things’ in life.” But I found that this, too, was meaningless.

Isaiah 24:2

Priests and laypeople, servants and masters, maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, bankers and debtors—none will be spared.

Isaiah 5:5

Now let me tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will tear down its hedges and let it be destroyed. I will break down its walls and let the animals trample it.

Ezekiel 7:12

Yes, the time has come; the day is here! Buyers should not rejoice over bargains, nor sellers grieve over losses, for all of them will fall under my terrible anger.

1 Corinthians 7:30

Those who weep or who rejoice or who buy things should not be absorbed by their weeping or their joy or their possessions.

James 5:1

Look here, you rich people: Weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.