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 not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd 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

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

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

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

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

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

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, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

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

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

General references

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth 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.