You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Does the wild donkey bray when it has grass? or the ox lows over its fodder?

or “Deliver me from the enemy’s power”
or “Redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless”?

Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?

While it [is] in its flower [and] is not plucked, yet it withers {before} all grass.

"Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

It blasts at him without mercy,
while he flees desperately from its grasp.

To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?

but seek their pasture about the mountains and follow the green grass.

Lo, I pray thee, Behemoth, that I made with thee: Grass as an ox he eateth.

that the mountains should give him grass, where all the beasts of the field take their pastime.

Each to its fellow, they cleave, they grasp each other, and cannot be parted;

Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.