James 4:14

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And yet can not ye tel what shall happen on the morowe. For what thyng is your lyfe? It is euen a vapour, that appeareth for a litle tyme, and then he vanisheth away.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:3 : 3 For my dayes are consumed away like smoke: and my bones are burnt vp as though they were a firebrande.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all fleshe is as grasse, and all the glorie of man, is as the flowre of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flowre falleth away:
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold thou hast made my dayes as it were an hand breadth long, & mine age is euen as nothing before thee: truely euery man is al together vanitie. Selah.
  • Job 7:6-7 : 6 My dayes passe ouer more spedyly then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7 O remember that my lyfe is but a winde, and that myne eye shall no more see pleasures:
  • Job 14:1-2 : 1 Man that is borne of woman, hath but a short time to lyue, and is full of miserie. 2 He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.
  • 1 John 2:17 : 17 And the worlde passeth away, and the luste thereof: but he that fulfylleth the wyll of God, abydeth for euer.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 My dayes are more swyft then a runner, they are gone & haue seene no good thing. 26 They are passed away as the shippes that be good vnder sayle, & as the eagle that fleeth to the pray.
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 Agayne, the riche, in that he is made lowe: Because as the flowre of the grasse he shall passe away.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 The ende of all thynges is at hande. Be ye therefore sober, and watche vnto prayer.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men?

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    4Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.

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    1Make not thy boast of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring foorth.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11Many thinges there be that encrease vanitie, and what hath a man els?

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    10Agayne, the riche, in that he is made lowe: Because as the flowre of the grasse he shall passe away.

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    24For all fleshe is as grasse, and all the glorie of man, is as the flowre of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flowre falleth away:

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    4O God make me to knowe mine ende, and the number of my dayes: that I may be certified howe long I haue to lyue.

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    6Truely man walketh in a vayne shadowe, truely he and all his do disquiet them selues in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, & can not tel who shal vse them.

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    25Therfore I say vnto you, be not carefull for your lyfe, what ye shall eate, or drynke: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the lyfe more worth then meate? & the body then rayment?

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