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James challenges confident planning by saying life is "a mist" that appears for a little time and then vanishes (James 4:13–14). He says boasting is evil and that such confidence is arrogant (James 4:16).
13Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let`s go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain."
14Whereas you don`t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
15For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.