Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.
Luke 12:26 - Modern King James Version If then you are not able to do even the least, why are you anxious about the rest? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If then you are not able to do such a little thing as that, why are you anxious and troubled with cares about the rest? American Standard Version (1901) If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why are ye anxious concerning the rest? Common English Bible If you can’t do such a small thing, why worry about the rest? Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, if you are not capable, in what is so little, why be anxious about the rest? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest? |
Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.
Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what He has made crooked?
Therefore I say to you, Do not be anxious for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Consider the lilies, how they grow; they do not toil, they do not spin. And yet I say to you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
And do not seek what you shall eat, nor what you shall drink, and stop being in anxiety.