James 4:15
Douay-Rheims
For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that.
Glossa Ordinaria
For what is your life? etc. He does not agree with those who say that after death there is nothing, and that death itself is nothing. But he so speaks as to teach that the life of the depraved is short in the present: which nevertheless in the future eternal death shall follow.
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James 4:15
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.