James 4:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁴ whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time 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 Križne Reference

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, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man 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, O Lord, what the measure of life is, for what vanity thou hast created all the sons of men!

Proverbs 27:1

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

Isaiah 2:22

Turn away from 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 thou dost bring me to an end;

James 1:10

and the rich in his humiliation, because like the flower of the grass 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 keep sane and sober for your prayers.

1 John 2:17

And the world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever.