sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

English

Etymology

From the King James Version of the Christian bible's original Greek "ἀρκετὸν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἡ κακία αὐτῆς" as it appears in Matthew, Chapter VI, 34.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself: sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Parallel rabbinical expression in the Babylonian Talmud, דיה לצרה בשעתה: "sufficient is the trouble of the hour".

Proverb

sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

1. No need to worry about the future; the present provides enough to worry about.

Synonyms

• never cross a bridge before you come to it

Translations

the present provides enough to worry about

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一天的難處一天當就夠了, 一天的难处一天当就够了 (yī tiān de nánchu yī tiān dāng jiù gòu le)

• Esperanto: sufiĉa por la tago estas ĝia propra malbono
• Finnish: kullekin päivälle riittävät sen omat murheet (fi translation of Matth. 6:34)
• French: à chaque jour suffit sa peine (fr)
• German: (based on Martin Luther's translation) Es ist genug, dass ein jeglicher Tag seine eigene Plage habe
• Hebrew: דיה לצרה בשעתה (he)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
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• Japanese: 一日の労苦は一日にて足れり。 (いちにち-の-ろうく-は-いちにち-にて-たれり, ichinichi-no-rōku-wa-ichinichi-nite-tareri), 明日は明日の風が吹く (あした-は-あした-の-かぜ-が-ふく, ashita-wa-ashita-no-kaze-ga-fuku)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: sufficit diei malitia sua
• Low German: (Johannes Jessen's translation) Dat is genog, dat jede Dag sin eegen Plag hett
• Polish: (from the Biblia Gdańska, 1632) dosyćci ma dzień na swojem utrapieniu
• Portuguese: basta a cada dia o seu mal
• Russian: довлеет человеку днесь зло́ба его́ (dovlejet čeloveku dnesʹ zlóba jevó)
• Spanish: basta a cada día su propio mal
• Ukrainian: кожний день має досить своєї турботи (kožnyj denʹ maje dosytʹ svojeji turboty)