Job 8:12

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While still in their greenness and not cut down, they wither more quickly than any grass.

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  • Jer 17:6 : 6 They will be like a shrub in the desert, dwelling in a parched place in the wilderness, in a land of salt where no one lives, and will not see when prosperity comes.
  • Matt 13:20 : 20 The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat, and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. In the same way, the rich person will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,
  • Ps 129:6-7 : 6 Let them be like grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, 7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms.

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    5 You sweep them away like a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that springs up in the morning—

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  • Job 14:7-10
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  • Ps 37:2
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    2 For they will soon wither like grass and fade like green plants.

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    16 They are green before the sun, and their shoots spread out over the garden.

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    9 Say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and its fruit stripped so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a great effort or many people to pull it out by its roots.

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    32 It will be fulfilled before his time, and his branch will not remain green.

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    10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.

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    7 The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are like grass.

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    15 As for man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower of the field.

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