Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Bible References

General references

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power]
Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil,
Psalm 73:17

Until I came into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood [for I considered] their end.
Psalm 90:5

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—
Psalm 92:7

That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.
Psalm 129:5

May all who hate Zion
Be put to shame and turned backward [in defeat].
Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the godless is only for a moment?
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,