Devine Scripture

James 4:14

James chapter 4 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

KJV

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Context

v.13Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:

v.14This passage

v.15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 38:12

    My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • Job 7:6

    My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.

  • 1 Peter 4:7

    But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

  • Psalms 90:5

    Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

  • Job 14:1

    Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

  • Psalms 39:5

    Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah