14Whereas 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.
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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:
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.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. …
Commentary
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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