James 4:14

Arrogant Boasting About The Future

¹³ How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: ¹⁴ When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone. ¹⁵ But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

No

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

1 Peter 1:24

For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

1 John 2:17

And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

Job 7:6-7

My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

Job 9:25-26

My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

Job 14:1-2

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

James 1:10

But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;

Psalm 89:47

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

Isaiah 38:12

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.