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 one rejoice in his humiliation, because he shall pass away as the flower of the grass.

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

Now 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, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man standing is altogether vanity. Selah.

Remember, I pray, how short my time is; why have You made all men in vain?

You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

For my days go up like smoke, and my bones glow like a firebrand.

My generation is departed and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver; He will cut me off from the loom; from day even to night You will make an end of me.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls out,

But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be of sound mind, and be sensible to prayers.

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