Etymology

sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

suf·fic·ent un·to the day is the evil there·of

Today it means: There is no need to worry about the future; the present provides enough to worry about. Full definition →

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From Matthew 6:34 in the King James Version of the Bible (spelling modernized): “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.” The phrase is a translation of Ancient Greek ἀρκετὸν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἡ κακία αὐτῆς (arketòn tēî hēmérāi hē kakía autês), and there is a parallel rabbinical expression in the Babylonian Talmud, דיה לצרה בשעתה (“the suffering of the (present) hour is enough for it”).

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