James 1:11

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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

There shall neither hunger nor thirst, heat nor Sun hurt them. For he that favoureth them shall lead them, and give them drink of the spring wells.

And the LORD ordained a worm against the spring of the morrow morning which smote the wild vine that it withered away.

And when the sun was up, it caught heat, and for lack of rooting withered away.

but as soon as the sun was up, it caught heat: and because it had not rooting it withered away.

So

Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you.

even when his bowels are at the fattest, and his bones full of marrow.

I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.

There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.

Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them.

Like as he came naked out of his mother's womb, so goeth he thither again, and carryeth nothing away with him of all his labour.

Woe be to the crown of pride, even to the drunken people of Ephraim, whose great pomp is as a flower that fadeth away upon the head of the valley of such as be in wealth, and are overladen with wine.

When the grass is withered, the flower falleth away. Even so is the people as grass, when the breath of the LORD bloweth upon them.

And he put forth a similitude unto them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth fruits plenteously,

"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day.

And they that use this world, be as though they used it not: For the fashion of this world goeth away.

to enjoy an inheritance immortal, and undefiled, and that perisheth not; reserved in heaven for you

And when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive an incorruptible crown of glory.

General references

No: but before it be shot forth, and before it be gathered, it withereth; before any other herb.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and be withered even as the green herb.

high and low, rich and poor, one with another.