Verse 13

Come now, you who say,“Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

Referenced Verses

• Prov 27:1 : 1 Do not boast about tomorrow; for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
• Luke 12:17-20 : 17 so he thought to himself,‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ 18 Then he said,‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to myself,“You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’ 20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
• Jas 5:1 : 1 Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.
• Gen 11:3-4 : 3 Then they said to one another,“Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”(They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.) 4 Then they said,“Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”
• Isa 56:11-12 : 11 The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain. 12 Each one says,‘Come on, I’ll get some wine! Let’s guzzle some beer! Tomorrow will be just like today! We’ll have everything we want!’
• Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd.
• Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”
• Eccl 2:1 : 1 Futility of Self-Indulgent Pleasure I thought to myself,“Come now, I will try self-indulgent pleasure to see if it is worthwhile.” But I found that it also is futile.
• Isa 5:5 : 5 Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.
• Isa 24:2 : 2 Everyone will suffer– the priest as well as the people, the master as well as the servant, the elegant lady as well as the female attendant, the seller as well as the buyer, the borrower as well as the lender, the creditor as well as the debtor.
• 1 Cor 7:30 : 30 those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions,