16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
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Commentary on James 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
In this chapter we are directed to consider,
Jam 4:1-10
The former chapter speaks of envying one another, as the great spring of strifes and contentions; this chapter speaks of a lust after worldly things, and a setting too great a value upon worldly pleasures and friendships, as that which carried their divisions to a shameful height.
Jam 4:11-17
In this part of the chapter,