James 1:11
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:46Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Psalms 73:18Surely you did set them in slippery places: you casted them down into destruction.
Psalms 102:11My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.
Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isaiah 40:7The grass withers, the flower fades: because the spirit of the LORD blows 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 →