James 4:14

We cannot know tomorrow, for life is a brief vapor that quickly vanishes. Human life is fragile and fleeting.

Cross-references · 12

• 1 Pet 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
• Ps 39:5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
• 1 Jn 2:17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
• Ps 102:3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
• Job 7:6–7My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
• Jas 1:10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
• Job 14:1–2“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
• Ps 90:5–7You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
• Job 9:25–26“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good.
• Ps 89:47Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• Isa 38:12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like 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 you will make an end of me.

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