Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Bible References

They were

James 1:10
let the rich be humbled by his instability: for he is as transitory as a flower in the field.
1 Peter 1:24
for human nature is like grass, and all their glory like the flower of the herb, the herb withers, the flower droops,