James 1:10-11

Testing of Your Faith

¹⁰ and _r the rich in his humiliation, because _s like a flower of the grass ₁ he will pass away. ¹¹ For the sun rises with its scorching heat and _t withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

1. Cross References
   Jeremiah 9:23
   Thus says the Lord : "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 102:4
   My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.
   Psalms 102:11
   My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
   1 Corinthians 7:31
   And those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
   1 Peter 1:24
   For "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls.
   
3. Cross References
   Isaiah 40:7
   The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass.