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

Whereas the rich, in his being brought low, - because, as a flower of grass, he will pass away;

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

My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good.

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

Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee, - Surely, a mere breath, are all men, even such as stand firm. Selah.

Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?

Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, they are like grass that shooteth up,

For, consumed in smoke, are my days, And, my bones, like a burning mass, are scorched through;

My dwelling, hath been broken up. And is stripped from me, like a shepherds tent, - I have roiled up - as a weaver - my life From the loom, doth he cut me off, From day until night, I said - Thou wilt finish me.

Inasmuch as - All flesh, is as grass, and, all the glory thereof, as the flower of grass, - The grass hath withered, and the flower hath fallen out,

But, the end of all things, hath drawn near: - be of sound mind, therefore, and be sober for prayers;

And, the world, passeth away, and the coveting thereof, but, he that doeth the will of God, endureth unto times age-abiding.