Job 8:12
When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
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- Jer 17:6 : 6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.
- Matt 13:20 : 20 And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;
- Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. 11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
- 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 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:
- Ps 129:6-7 : 6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth. 7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.
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