Job 8:12
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12 While it is yet green and uncut,
it withers quicker than any grass.
Job 14:2
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2 Like a flower that springs up and fades,(A)
swift as a shadow that does not abide.
Psalm 37:2
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2 Like grass they wither quickly;
like green plants they wilt away.(A)
Ben Sira 14:18
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18 As with the leaves growing on a luxuriant tree—
one falls off and another sprouts—
So with the generations of flesh and blood:
one dies and another flourishes.(A)
James 1:10
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10 and the rich one in his lowliness, for he will pass away “like the flower of the field.”(A)
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1 Peter 1:24
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24 for:
“All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like the flower of the field;
the grass withers,
and the flower wilts;(A)
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