Job 20:5-9

5 athat the exulting of the wicked is short,
and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6 bThough his height mount up to the heavens,
and his head reach to the clouds,
7he will perish forever like his own cdung;
those who have seen him will say, dWhere is he?’
8He will fly away like ea dream and not be found;
he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
9 fThe eye that saw him will see him no more,
nor will his place any more behold him.

Psalms 37:35-36

35 gI have seen a wicked, ruthless man,
spreading himself like ha green laurel tree.
The identity of this tree is uncertain

36But he passed away,
Or  But one passed by
and behold, khe was no more;
though I sought him, he could not be found.

Psalms 73:17-20

17until I went into lthe sanctuary of God;
then I discerned their mend.
18 Truly you set them in nslippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.
19How they are destroyed oin a moment,
swept away utterly by pterrors!
20Like qa dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when ryou rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

Psalms 90:5-6

5 You ssweep them away as with a flood; they are like ta dream,
like ugrass that is renewed in the morning:
6in vthe morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it wfades and xwithers.

Psalms 92:7

7that though ythe wicked sprout like grass
and all zevildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;

Psalms 129:5-7

5May all who hate Zion
be aaput to shame and turned backward!
6Let them be like abthe grass on the housetops,
which acwithers before it grows up,
7with which the reaper does not fill his hand
nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

James 1:10-11

10and adthe rich in his humiliation, because aelike a flower of the grass
Or  a wild flower
he will pass away.
11For the sun rises with its scorching heat and agwithers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

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