James 4:14 - Forerunner Commentary

James 4:14

12 There is one¹ Lawgiver, ^awho is able to save and to destroy. ^bWho are you to judge another?

Do Not Boast About Tomorrow

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow¹ we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”;

14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? ^aIt is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

15 Instead you ought to say, ^a“If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”

16 But now you boast in your arrogance. ^aAll such boasting is evil.

17 Therefore, ^ato him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Verse Comparison: James 4:14

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American Standard Version
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.

Amplified® Bible
Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air].

Contemporary English Version
What do you know about tomorrow? How can you be so sure about your life? It is nothing more than mist that appears for only a little while before it disappears.

Darby English Version
ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)

Good News Bible
You don't even know what your life tomorrow will be! You are like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears.

International Standard Version
You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are {just} a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

New International Version
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

New King James Version
whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Yet you do not know what your life will have become tomorrow. You resemble a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

Young's Literal Translation
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;

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