Job 8:12
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12 While yet in flower and not cut down,
they wither before any other plant.(A)
Jeremiah 17:6
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6 They shall be like a shrub in the desert
and shall not see when relief comes.
They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness,
in an uninhabited salt land.(A)
1 Peter 1:24
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24 For
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,(A)
James 1:10-11
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10 and the rich in having been humbled, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.(A) 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same way with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away.
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Matthew 13:20
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20 As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,
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Psalm 129:6-7
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6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops
that withers before it grows up,(A)
7 with which reapers do not fill their hands
or binders of sheaves their arms,
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