Jam 4:13-16 | NASB1995 | STEP | Come now , you who say , “ Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city , and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit .”

James 4:13-16

13 ^aCome now, you who say, ^b“Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” 14 ^{▼▼ Lit Who do not}Yet you do not know ^{▼▼ Or what will happen tomorrow. What kind of life is yours?}what your life will be like tomorrow. ^eYou are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. 15 ^{▼▼ Lit Instead of your saying}Instead, you ought to say, ^g“If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” 16 But as it is, you boast in your ^{▼▼ Or pretensions}arrogance; ⁱall such boasting is evil.