James 4:16

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James 4:16

But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

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But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

For the choir director. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

Like clouds and wind without rain
Is a man who boasts of his gifts falsely.

Do not boast about tomorrow,

For you do not know what a day may bring forth.

“Yet you said, ‘I will be a queen forever.’
These things you did not consider
Nor remember the outcome of them.

For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’