Job 24:24

Bible in Basic English 1965

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

Cross References

Job 14:21

His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

Job 20:5

That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

Job 21:13

Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

Job 21:33

The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

Job 8:22

Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.

Psalm 37:10

For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

Psalm 73:19

How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

Psalm 92:7

When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

James 1:11

For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.