15 instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'
but took leave of them, saying, `It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you -- God willing.' And he sailed from Ephesus,
Many `are' the purposes in a man's heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.
Who `is' this -- he hath said, and it is, `And' the Lord hath not commanded `it'?
always in my prayers beseeching, if by any means now at length I shall have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you,
but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;
for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;
And the king saith to Zadok, `Take back the ark of God to the city; if I find grace in the eyes of Jehovah, then He hath brought me back, and shewn me it and His habitation; and if thus He say, I have not delighted in thee; here `am' I, He doth to me as `is' good in His eyes.'
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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,