Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

General references

Bible References

As the grass

Psalm 37:2
For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
Jeremiah 17:5
This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
Matthew 13:6
And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead.

General references

Job 8:12
When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
Psalm 37:2
For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

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