Thematic Bible: Man compared to withering grass
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Mortality » Of man » Man compared to withering grass
For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
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I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?
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As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field. The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.
A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.
This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
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But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.
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- A Time To Die
- Abrasion
- Beauty Of Nature
- Beauty, Temporal Nature Of
- Being Humble
- Death
- Enjoying Shame
- Fear Of Man
- Fear, Overcome By
- Flowers
- Futility
- God Will Comfort
- Grass
- Grass Withered
- Humility And Pride
- Imminent Tomorrow