James 1:11
For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10and the rich in his humiliation, because as [the] grass's flower he will pass away.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:46Strangers have faded away, And they come trembling forth from their close places.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:
Psalms 73:18Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
Psalms 102:11My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious adornment, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine.
Isaiah 40:7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
Matthew Henry on James 1:3-13
Necessity of Faith and Patience; Evil of Indecision. ( a. d. 61.) 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea… Read the whole commentary →