Matthew Poole and continuators on James 4:14
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James4:14
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.
Whether ye your selves shall continue till then, or what else shall then be, or not be. In vain do ye boast of whole Years, when ye cannot command the Events of one Day.
This Question implies Contempt, as 1 Sam. 25.10. Psalm 144.3, 4.
Like a Vapour, frail, uncertain, and of short continuance; and then how vain are those Counsels and Purposes that are built upon no more sure a Foundation, than your own Lives?
Marginal references: Or, for it is.; Job 7.7. See ch. 1.10.
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