Let them be as the grass of the housetops, which withers before it is plucked up.

Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom.

And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert. he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren [places], and in the wilderness, in a salty land which is not inhabited.

But the [seed] sown on stony ground, is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

but the rich [man] in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.

For the sun arose with burning heat and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and its beautiful appearance perished. So the rich man also shall fade away in his pursuits.

For "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of [the] grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,