Job 8:12

“While it is still green (in flower) and not cut down,
Yet it withers before any other plant [when without water].

Jeremiah 17:6

“For he will be like a shrub in the [parched] desert;
And shall not see prosperity when it comes,
But shall live in the rocky places of the wilderness,
In an uninhabited salt land.

Psalm 129:6-7

Let them be like the grass on the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up,

Matthew 13:20

The one on whom seed was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and at once welcomes it with joy;

James 1:10-11

and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

1 Peter 1:24

For,“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,

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