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Jam 4:14 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

It is		or, For it is
a vapour		Jam 1:10; Job 7:6,7; Job 9:25,26; Job 14:1,2; Psa 39:5; Psa 89:47; Psa 90:5-7; Psa 102:3; Isa 38:12; 1Pe 1:24; 1Pe 4:7; 1Jo 2:17

Correlating Passages

a vapour

	Jam 1:10	But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
	Job 7:6	My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
	Job 7:7	O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
	Job 9:25	Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
	Job 9:26	They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.
	Job 14:1	Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
	Job 14:2	He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
	Psa 39:5	Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
	Psa 89:47	Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
	Psa 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.
	Psa 90:6	In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
	Psa 90:7	For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
	Psa 102:3	For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
	Isa 38:12	Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
	1Pe 1:24	For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
	1Pe 4:7	But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
	1Jo 2:17	And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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Scott, Thomas. "James 4:14," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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