¹² Whilst it is yet in its greenness, `and' not cut down, It withereth before any `other' herb.

⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

⁶ Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

⁷ Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

²⁰ And he that was sown upon the rocky places, this is he that heareth the word, and straightway with joy receiveth it;

¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

¹¹ For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

²⁴ For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: