Thematic Bible: Man compared to withering grass
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Mortality » Of man » Man compared to withering grass
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away:
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I, even I, am he that comforts you: who are you, that you should be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;
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As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and the place there shall know it no more.
The voice said, } Cry. { And he said, What shall I cry? {} All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is as the flower of the field: The grass withers, the flower fades: because the breath of the LORD blows upon it: surely the people are grass.
You carry them away as with a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up. In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.
Therefore their inhabitants were of little power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blighted before it is grown.
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But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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Related Topics
- 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