James 4:13
Good News Translation
Now listen to me, you that say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to a certain city, where we will stay a year and go into business and make a lot of money."

New Revised Standard Version
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.”

Contemporary English Version
You should know better than to say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to the city. We will do business there for a year and make a lot of money!"

New American Bible
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit”—

Douay-Rheims Bible
But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain.

Go to.

James 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.

Genesis 11:3,4,7 And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar: . . .

Ecclesiastes 2:1 I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.

Isaiah 5:5 And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.

To day.

Proverbs 27:1 Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.

Isaiah 56:12 Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness: and it shall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much more.

Luke 12:17-20 And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? . . .

and buy.

Isaiah 24:2 And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as with the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth.

Isaiah 56:11 And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last.

Ezekiel 7:12 The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof.

1 Corinthians 7:30 And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as if they possessed not:

Context
Do Not Boast of Tomorrow
12There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver. 13But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain. 14Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.…
Cross References
Proverbs 27:1
Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.

Luke 12:18
And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and will build greater: and into them will I gather all things that are grown to me and my goods.

James 5:1
Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.

James 4:12
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