¹ Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

¹³ How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

¹⁴ When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

¹⁵ But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

¹⁶ But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

⁷ For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!

¹⁹ And more than this, the Lord will give Israel up with you into the hands of the Philistines: and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me: and the Lord will give up the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.

¹² Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

² (For he says, I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: see, now is the good time; now is the day of salvation):