James 4:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:3 : 3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 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:
  • Ps 39:5 : 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.)
  • Job 7:6-7 : 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope. 7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
  • Job 14:1-2 : 1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble. 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
  • 1 John 2:17 : 17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good. 26 They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
  • Jas 1:10 : 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 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

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  • Jas 4:15
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    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.

  • Ps 144:4
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    4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Prov 27:1
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    1 Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

    12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

    11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7 No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

    16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

  • Job 14:1-2
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    1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

    2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

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  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    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:

  • Ps 39:4-6
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    4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

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    6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • Job 14:10
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    10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

  • Matt 6:34
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    34 Then have no care for tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Take the trouble of the day as it comes.

  • Matt 6:25
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    25 So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?

  • Ps 146:4
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    4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • Isa 2:22
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    22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

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    6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

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    28 But if God gives such clothing to the grass in the field, which today is living, and tomorrow will be burned in the oven, how much more will he give clothing to you, O men of little faith?

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    33 Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.

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    24 A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?

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    15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

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

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  • Eccl 3:20
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    20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

  • Eccl 5:15
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    15 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

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    7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

  • Job 8:12
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    12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • Matt 25:13
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    13 Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.

  • Isa 40:7
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    7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

  • Luke 12:15
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    15 And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

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    20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

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