Psalm 37:2

English Standard Version

²For they will soon ^(A)fade like ^(B)the grass
and wither ^(C)like the green herb.

James 1:10-11

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¹⁰and ^(A)the rich in his humiliation, because ^(B)like a flower of the grass^[a] he will pass away. ¹¹For the sun rises with its scorching heat and ^(C)withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

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Footnotes

James 1:10 Or a wild flower

Psalm 92:7

English Standard Version

⁷that though ^(A)the wicked sprout like grass
and all ^(B)evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;

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Psalm 92:7 in all English translations

Psalm 90:5-6

English Standard Version

⁵You ^(A)sweep them away as with a flood; they are like ^(B)a dream,
like ^(C)grass that is renewed in the morning:
⁶in ^(D)the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it ^(E)fades and ^(F)withers.

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Job 14:2

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²He comes out like ^(A)a flower and ^(B)withers;
he flees like ^(C)a shadow and continues not.

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1 Peter 1:24

English Standard Version

²⁴for

^(A)“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,

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Psalm 73:17-20

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¹⁷until I went into ^(A)the sanctuary of God;
then I discerned their ^(B)end.

¹⁸Truly you set them in ^(C)slippery places;
    you make them fall to ruin.
¹⁹How they are destroyed ^(D)in a moment,
    swept away utterly by ^(E)terrors!
²⁰Like ^(F)a dream when one awakes,
    O Lord, when ^(G)you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

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Psalm 37:35-36

English Standard Version

³⁵^(A)I have seen a wicked, ruthless man,
spreading himself like ^(B)a green laurel tree.^[a]
³⁶But he passed away,^[b] and behold, ^(C)he was no more;
though I sought him, he could not be found.

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Footnotes

Psalm 37:35 The identity of this tree is uncertain
Psalm 37:36 Or But one passed by

Job 20:5-9

English Standard Version

⁵^(A)that the exulting of the wicked is short,
    and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
⁶^(B)Though his height mount up to the heavens,
    and his head reach to the clouds,
⁷he will perish forever like his own ^(C)dung;
    those who have seen him will say, ^(D)‘Where is he?’
⁸He will fly away like ^(E)a dream and not be found;
    he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
⁹^(F)The eye that saw him will see him no more,
    nor will his place any more behold him.

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Psalm 129:5-7

English Standard Version

⁵May all who hate Zion
    be ^(A)put to shame and turned backward!
⁶Let them be like ^(B)the grass on the housetops,
    which ^(C)withers before it grows up,
⁷with which the reaper does not fill his hand
    nor the binder of sheaves his arms,