Job 8:12

While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

Jeremiah 17:6

He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.

Psalm 129:6-7

Let them be like grass on the rooftops,
which withers before it grows up

Matthew 13:20

And the one sown on rocky ground—this is one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

James 1:10-11

but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

1 Peter 1:24

For

All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

Bible References

General references

Psalm 129:6
Let them be like grass on the rooftops,
which withers before it grows up
Jeremiah 17:6
He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.
Matthew 13:20
And the one sown on rocky ground—this is one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.
James 1:10
but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
1 Peter 1:24
For

All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,

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