Psalms 37:2

The reason not to envy the wicked is that they will soon be cut down and wither like grass. Their prosperity is short-lived.

Cross-references · 9

• Ps 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
• Ps 90:5–6You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
• Jas 1:10–11and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
• Ps 37:35–36I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
• Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
• Job 20:5–9that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
• Ps 73:17–20Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
• 1 Pet 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
• Ps 129:5–7Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

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