Even if they were fresh and not cut, they would wither quicker than grass.
the triumph of the wicked is short-lived, and the joy of the godless person lasts only a moment?
“Can papyrus grow up where there is no swamp? Can rushes grow tall without water?
The same thing happens to all who forget God. The hope of the godless dies.
The canals will stink. Egypt’s streams will be emptied and dried up. The reeds and cattails will wither.
He will be like a bush in the wilderness. He will not see when something good comes. He will live in the dry places in the desert, in a salty land where no one can live.
The seed planted on rocky ground ⌞is the person who⌟ hears the word and accepts it at once with joy.
“All people are like grass, and all their beauty is like a flower of the field. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,