## spend a year ##

This is an idiom that can be translated as "stay there for a year." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

## Listen, you who say - ##

</b>  "Someone might say"

##  Who knows what will happen tomorrow ##

</b> Who knows what will happen tomorrow</b> This is a rhetorical question that James uses to scold his audience. It can be translated as a statement: "No one knows what will happen tomorrow." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

## and what is your life anyway ##

This is a rhetorical question that James uses to teach his audience about physical life. It can be translated as a statement and as a new sentence: "Think about your physical lives."

## For you are like a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ##

This is a simile that compares how quickly physical lives are quickly end to a mist that appears then quickly goes away. This could be translated as "You live for only a short amount of time, and you do not know when you will die." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])