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

Bible References

A vapour

and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

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

Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,

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

Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.