James 4:14

The English Standar Version

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34

But Barzillai said to the king, "How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Psalm 102:3

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

Proverbs 27:1

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

Isaiah 2:22

Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;

James 1:10

and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass[3] he will pass away.

1 Peter 1:24

for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.

1 John 2:17

And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.