Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.’
James 4:13 - New International Version (Anglicised) Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and spend a year there and carry on our business and make money. American Standard Version (1901) Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: Common English Bible Pay attention, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such-and-such a town. We will stay there a year, buying and selling, and making a profit.” Catholic Public Domain Version But who are you to judge your neighbor? Consider this, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into that city, and certainly we will spend a year there, and we will do business, and we will make our profit," Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year, and will traffic, and make our gain. |
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.’
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
I said to myself, ‘Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.’ But that also proved to be meaningless.
it will be the same for priest as for people, for the master as for his servant, for the mistress as for her servant, for seller as for buyer, for borrower as for lender, for debtor as for creditor.
Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
The time has come! The day has arrived! Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller grieve, for my wrath is on the whole crowd.
those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep;
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.