A [a]voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the [b]grace thereof is as the flowers of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:6 The voice of God which spake to the Prophet Isaiah.
  2. Isaiah 40:6 Meaning, all man’s wisdom and natural powers, James 1:10; 1 Pet. 1:24.

A voice says, “Cry out.”
    And I said, “What shall I cry?”

“All people are like grass,(A)
    and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.

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10 [a]Again, he that is [b]rich, in that he is made low: [c]for as the flower of the grass, shall he (A)vanish away.

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:10 Before he concludeth, he giveth a doctrine contrary to the former: to wit, how we ought to use prosperity, which is plenty of all things: to wit, so that no man therefore please himself, but be so much the more void of pride.
  2. James 1:10 Who hath all things at his will.
  3. James 1:10 An argument taken of the very nature of the things themselves, for that they are most vain and uncertain.

10 But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.(A)

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