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14. what--literally, "of what nature" is your life? that is, how
evanescent it is.
It is even--Some oldest authorities read, "For ye are."
BENGEL, with other old authorities, reads, "For it
shall be," the future referring to the "morrow"
(Jas 4:13-15).
The former expresses, "Ye yourselves are transitory"; so everything of
yours, even your life, must partake of the same transitoriness.
Received text has no old authority.
and then vanisheth away--"afterwards vanishing as it came";
literally, "afterwards (as it appeared), so vanishing"
[ALFORD].
JFB.
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