Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

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Bible References

As the grass

Psalm 37:2
For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus said Jehovah: Cursed is the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth.
Matthew 13:6
and the sun having risen they were scorched, and through not having root, they withered,

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Job 8:12
While it is in its budding -- uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.
Psalm 37:2
For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.