James 1:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Risen

So

General references

Job 8:12

Psalm 37:2

Psalm 49:2

Bible References

Risen

They shall never hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water he shall feed them.

But God also prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd so that it withered.

and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

but when the sun was up, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away.

So

Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

Resh I have seen the wicked in great power and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

Those that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; in desolation thou shalt cause them to fall.

As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim and to the open flower of the beauty of their glory which is upon the head of the fertile valley of those that are overcome with wine!

The grass withers, the flower fades because the spirit of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people is grass.

And he spoke a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully;

There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day;

and those that use this world, as not using it as their own, for the fashion of this world passes away.

unto the incorruptible inheritance that cannot be defiled and that does not fade away, conserved in the heavens for you,

And when the great Prince of the pastors shall appear, ye shall receive the incorruptible crown of glory.

General references

Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb.

Both low and high, rich and poor, together.