Isaiah 40:7
The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.
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- Job 41:21 : 21 Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.
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8 The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
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15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.
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2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
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12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
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6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
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10 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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4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
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15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.
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6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
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7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
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4 And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.
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24 They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.
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24 For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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10 And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?
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2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
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4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
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10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?
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16 It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.
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9 By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.
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3 So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.
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22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.
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39 So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.
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1 The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said: