Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
As the grass
General references
Bible References
As the grass
Psalm 37:2
For, like grass, soon shall they wither, and, like green herbage, shall they fade.
Psalm 92:7
When the lawless do thrive like grass, And all the workers of iniquity have blossomed, It is that they may be destroyed for ever.
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus, saith Yahweh Accursed is the man - Who trusteth in a son of earth, And hath made flesh his arm, - And whose heart from Yahweh, turneth aside:
Matthew 13:6
and, the sun arising, it was scorched, and, because it had no root, it withered away;
General references
Job 8:12
Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither:
Psalm 37:2
For, like grass, soon shall they wither, and, like green herbage, shall they fade.