James 4:14 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁴ Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ 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)

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.

James 4:14 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 19:34

The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”

Psalm 102:3

Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn Your ear to me— in the day I call, answer me quickly.

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 39:5

“Let me know, Adonai, my end and what the number of my days is. Let me know how short-lived I am.

Psalm 78:39

For He remembered that they are but flesh, a passing breath that never returns.

Psalm 89:47

How long, Adonai, will You hide Yourself? Forever? Will Your fury keep burning like fire?

Proverbs 27:1

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

Isaiah 2:22

Stop trusting in mankind —whose breath is in his nose— for what is he really worth?

Isaiah 38:12

Like a shepherd’s tent, my dwelling is pulled up and carried away from me. Like a weaver I rolled up my life. He cuts me off from the loom. From day until night You make my end.

James 1:10

and the rich person in his humble position, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

1 Peter 1:24

For, “All humanity is like grass, And all its glory like a wildflower. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,

1 Peter 4:7

Now the end of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for prayer.

1 John 2:17

The world is passing away along with its desire, but the one who does the will of God abides forever.