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 shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever:
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
Matthew 13:6
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

General references

Job 8:12
While it is yet green, and not cut down, it withers before any other plant.
Psalm 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.