Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." ¹⁶As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
We were never meant to be truly satisfied by earthly things. Each hint of satisfaction we get in this life is meant to point us to a satisfaction that will never end.