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
The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
Psalm 37:10
For yet a little while, and the wicked is not; and thou considerest his place, but he is not.
Psalm 73:19
How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.
James 1:11
For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings.
James 5:1
Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you.

Cut off

Isaiah 17:5
And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
Revelation 14:14
And I saw, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like the Son of man, having upon his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.