Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Bible References

Are exalted

Job 20:5
That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?
Psalm 37:10
For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.
Psalm 73:19
How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
James 1:11
For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
James 5:1
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

Cut off

Isaiah 17:5
And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.
Revelation 14:14
And I saw a white cloud, and on the cloud I saw one seated, like a son of man, having on his head a crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp curved blade.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain