14ye 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,)


In Context

11 Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against his brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if thou judgest the law, thou art not doer of the law, but judge.

12 One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou who judgest thy neighbour?

13 Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,

14 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,)

15 instead of your saying, If the Lord should so will and we should live, we will also do this or that.

16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

James 4:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:14Whereas 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:14Why, 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:14Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:14Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:14whereas 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:14whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:14Whereas ye know not what will be on the morrow: For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:14Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:14who 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;