James 1:11
For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
10and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:46The strangers shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalms 73:18Surely thou settest them in slippery places: thou castest them down to destruction.
Psalms 102:11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and 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 beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!
Isaiah 40:7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the LORD 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 →