James 1:11
For the sun rose with a burning heat, and parched the grass, and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
10And the rich, in his being low; because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:46The strangers are melted away, and shall be straitened in their distresses.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus.
Psalms 73:18But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
Psalms 102:11Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.
Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory of his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine.
Isaiah 40:7The grass is withered, and the dower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed 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 →