²⁷ And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?

¹⁴ I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done it, that men should fear before him.

²⁵ And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit unto the measure of his life?

²⁶ If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why are ye anxious concerning the rest?

³⁶ Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst not make one hair white or black.

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days `as' handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

⁶ Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up `riches', and knoweth not who shall gather them.

¹⁸ But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.