Job 8:12
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
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- Jer 17:6 : 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
- Matt 13:20 : 20 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
- Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
- 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
- Ps 129:6-7 : 6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up; 7 with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
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