13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
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Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? …
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. …
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-17)In this part of the chapter, I. We are cautioned against the sin of evil-speaking: Speak not evil one of another, brethren , Jas. 4:11. The Greek word, katalaleite , signifies speaking any thing that may hurt or injure another; we must not speak evil things of others, though they be true, unless we be called to it, and there be some necessary occasion for the; much less must we report evil things…
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