James 4:14

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Summary

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.

A vapour

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A vapour

and the rich in his humiliation, because as the grass's flower he will pass away.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum: from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.

Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen;

But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers;

And the world is passing, and its lust, but he that does the will of God abides for eternity.