Barzillai replied to the king, ‘How many years of my life are left that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
James 4:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring #– #what your life will be! For you are like vapour that appears for a little while, then vanishes. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air]. American Standard Version (1901) whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Common English Bible You don’t really know about tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for only a short while before it vanishes. Catholic Public Domain Version consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. |
Barzillai replied to the king, ‘How many years of my life are left that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
Don’t boast about tomorrow, for you don’t know what a day might bring.
Put no more trust in a mere human, who has only the breath in his nostrils. What is he really worth?
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; he cuts me off from the loom. By nightfall you make an end of me.
but let the rich boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
The end of all things is near; therefore, be alert and sober-minded for prayer.
And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does the will of God remains for ever.