James 4:13

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:1 : 1 Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.
  • Luke 12:17-20 : 17 and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits? 18 and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things, 19 and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry. 20 `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you';
  • Gen 11:3-4 : 3 and they say each one to his neighbour, `Give help, let us make bricks, and burn `them' thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar. 4 And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'
  • Isa 56:11-12 : 11 And the dogs `are' strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they `are' shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter: 12 `Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink, And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great -- exceeding abundant!'
  • Ezek 7:12 : 12 Come hath the time, arrived hath the day, The buyer doth not rejoice, And the seller doth not become a mourner, For wrath `is' unto all its multitude.
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'
  • Eccl 2:1 : 1 I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.
  • Isa 24:2 : 2 And it hath been -- as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting `it' on himself.
  • 1 Cor 7:30 : 30 and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 4:14-16
    3 verses
    84%

    14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

    15 instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

    16 and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

  • 1 Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

  • 12 one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou -- who art thou that dost judge the other?

  • Jas 5:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you';

    2 your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

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    18 and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,

    19 and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

    20 `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?

    21 so `is' he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

  • 12 `Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink, And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great -- exceeding abundant!'

  • Ezek 7:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 Come hath the time, arrived hath the day, The buyer doth not rejoice, And the seller doth not become a mourner, For wrath `is' unto all its multitude.

    13 For the seller to the sold thing turneth not, And yet among the living `is' their life, For the vision `is' unto all its multitude, It doth not turn back, And none by his iniquity doth strengthen his life.

  • 34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day `is' the evil of it.

  • 19 So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

  • 13 They wear out in good their days, And in a moment `to' Sheol go down.

  • 14 `Bad, bad,' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself.

  • 11 for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

  • 13 And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

  • 4 Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

  • 28 Say not thou to thy friend, `Go, and return, and to-morrow I give,' And substance with thee.

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    30 and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing;

    31 and those using this world, as not using `it' up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.

  • 33 sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

  • 11 Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.

  • 5 in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;

  • 4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

  • 7 for nothing did we bring into the world -- `it is' manifest that we are able to carry nothing out;

  • 6 Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

  • 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

  • Prov 1:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13 Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses `with' spoil,

    14 Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'

  • 33 A little sleep -- a little slumber -- A little folding of the hands to lie down.

  • 7 There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth `is' abundant.

  • 9 and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

  • 37 for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

  • 10 and an opinion in this do I give: for this to you `is' expedient, who not only to do, but also to will, did begin before -- a year ago,

  • 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

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    15 And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

    16 And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;

  • 9 and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.

  • 17 `And every shipmaster, and all the company upon the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, far off stood,

  • 4 Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.

  • 6 In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike `are' good.

  • 33 Take heed, watch and pray, for ye have not known when the time is;

  • 12 For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

  • 12 that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

  • 5 ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

  • 9 What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?