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 praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye?
Psalm 37:10
Suffer yet a little while, and the ungodly shall be clean gone; thou shalt look after his place, and he shall be away.
Psalm 73:19
O how suddenly do they consume, perish and come to a fearful end!
Psalm 92:7
that the ungodly are green as grass, and that all the works of wickedness do flourish, to be destroyed forever.
James 1:11
The sun riseth with heat, and the grass withereth and his flower falleth away, and the beauty of the fashion of it perisheth: even so shall the rich man perish with his abundance.
James 5:1
Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you.

Cut off

Isaiah 17:5
And he shall be as one that gathereth up corn in the harvest, which cutteth his handful with the sickle, and when one gathereth the sheaves together in the valley, of Rephaim.
Revelation 14:14
And I looked and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sitting like unto the son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.