en_tn_condensed/jas/04/13.md

spend a year there

James speaks of spending time as if it were money. "stay there for a year" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)

Who knows what will happen tomorrow, and what is your life?

James uses these questions to correct his audience and to teach these believers that physical life is not that important. They can be expressed as statements. AT: "No one knows what will happen tomorrow, and your life does not last very long!" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)

For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then disappears

James speaks of people as if they were a mist that appears and then quickly goes away. AT: "You live for only a short amount of time, and then you die" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)

translationWords

• rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/life