And his garments became glistening, very white, so as no fuller on earth can whiten.

But if any one thinketh that he behaveth improperly in respect to his virgin [daughter], if she pass the flower of her age [without being married], and if it must be so, let him do what he will, he committeth no sin; let them marry.

but the rich, in that he is made low; because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.

For the sun rose with its burning heat, and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also will the rich man fade away in his ways.

Because, "All flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass; the grass withered, and its flower fell off;

and cinnamon, and amomum, and odors, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep; and merchandise of horses and chariots and slaves; and souls of men.