Job 8:12
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12 (A)While it is yet green and not cut down,
It withers before any other plant.
Jeremiah 17:6
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6 For he shall be (A)like a shrub in the desert,
And (B)shall not see when good comes,
But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
(C)In a salt land which is not inhabited.
1 Peter 1:24
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24 because
(A)“All flesh is as grass,
And all [a]the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,
Footnotes
- 1 Peter 1:24 NU its glory as
James 1:10-11
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10 but the rich in his humiliation, because (A)as a flower of the field he will pass away. 11 For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.
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Matthew 13:20
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20 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately (A)receives it with joy;
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Psalm 129:6-7
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6 Let them be as the (A)grass on the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up,
7 With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
Nor he who binds sheaves, his [a]arms.
Footnotes
- Psalm 129:7 armsful, lit. bosom
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