Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which is dried up before it shoots forth,

from which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

For he shall be destitute in the wilderness, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.

That which was sown on stony places, this is he who hears the Word and immediately receives it with joy;

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

For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. Thus the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.

because All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,