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 triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Psalm 37:10
Vau For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be; thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
Psalm 73:19
How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They have come to an end; they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Psalm 92:7
The wicked spring forth as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity blossom, so that they shall be destroyed for ever:
James 1:11
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beautiful appearance of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
James 5:1
Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Cut off

Isaiah 17:5
And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the sheaves and reaps the grain with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathers grain in the valley of Rephaim.
Revelation 14:14
And I looked, and, behold, a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle.