James 4:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

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  • Ps 102:3 : 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 ¶ For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
  • Job 7:6-7 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7 ¶ O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
  • Job 14:1-2 : 1 ¶ Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
  • 1 John 2:17 : 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 ¶ Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 ¶ But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

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