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 the grass on the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up,
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.
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
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,