Job 8:12

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

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

that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell among this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people,” says Yahweh, “because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.” ’ ”

Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”

When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

But the miry places of it, and its marshes, will not be healed. They will be given up to salt.

Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

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;

The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burned up, and one third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.