While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,
Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
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