Psalm 37:2
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2 for they will soon fade like the grass
and wither like the green herb.(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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Psalm 92:7
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7 though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever,(A)
Psalm 90:5-6
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5 You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning;(A)
6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.(B)
Job 14:2
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2 comes up like a flower and withers,
flees like a shadow and does not last.(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)
Psalm 73:17-20
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17 until I went into the sanctuary of God;
then I perceived their end.(A)
18 Truly you set them in slippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.(B)
19 How they are destroyed in a moment,
swept away utterly by terrors!(C)
20 They are[a] like a dream when one awakes;
on awaking you despise their phantoms.(D)
Footnotes
- 73.20 Cn: Heb Lord
Psalm 37:35-36
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Job 20:5-9
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5 that the exulting of the wicked is short
and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?(A)
6 Even though they mount up high as the heavens
and their head reaches to the clouds,(B)
7 they will perish forever like their own dung;
those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’
8 They will fly away like a dream and not be found;
they will be chased away like a vision of the night.(C)
9 The eye that saw them will see them no more,
nor will their place behold them any longer.(D)
Psalm 129:5-7
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5 May all who hate Zion
be put to shame and turned backward.(A)
6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops
that withers before it grows up,(B)
7 with which reapers do not fill their hands
or binders of sheaves their arms,
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