Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Boasting » What not to boast of
For you
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that." read more.
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
Commerce » Called » Buying and selling
Common delusions » Presuming upon unchanging conditions
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
Evil » What is evil
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that." read more.
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
The Lord smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
They have forsaken Me,
The
To hew for themselves
Broken cisterns
That can hold no water.
"The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? "I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.
He
To
Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Verse Concepts
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one fate for all men. Furthermore, the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil and insanity is in their hearts throughout their lives. Afterwards they go to the dead.
There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like an error which goes forth from the ruler-- folly is set in many exalted places while rich men sit in humble places. I have seen slaves riding on horses and princes walking like slaves on the land.
Happiness of the The Wicked » Is uncertain
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
natural Life » Described as » Uncertain
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that."
Plans of men » Bold » Business man
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » Bold » Business man
Presuming upon time » Indulging in dreams of future gain
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
Presumption » Warnings against
and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,
But the person who does anything defiantly, whether he is native or an alien, that one is blaspheming the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.
An earthenware vessel
Will the
Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?
But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’
Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the serpents.
“You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.
Presumption » Exhibited in » Planning for futurity
Presumption » Presuming upon time and opportunity, common ways of » Indulging in dreams of future gain
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
Presumptuous plans » Examples of » Bold » Business man
Self-delusion » Exhibited in thinking that » Our lives shall be prolonged
And
Self-delusion » Exhibited in thinking that » Our lives will be prolonged
And
Time » Presuming upon time and opportunity, common ways of » Indulging in dreams of future gain
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.