James 1:10
Good News Translation
and the rich Christians must be glad when God brings them down. For the rich will pass away like the flower of a wild plant.

New Revised Standard Version
and the rich in being brought low, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.

Contemporary English Version
But any who are rich should be glad when God makes them humble. Rich people will disappear like wild flowers

New American Bible
and the rich one in his lowliness, for he will pass away “like the flower of the field.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.

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Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:2 My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?

Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Philippians 3:8 Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ.

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy)

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James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

Job 14:2 Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

Psalm 37:2,35,36 For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly fall. . . .

Psalm 90:5,6 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. . . .

Psalm 102:11 My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 103:15 Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.

Isaiah 40:6 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field.

Matthew 6:30 And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith?

1 Corinthians 7:31 And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the fashion of this world passeth away.

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away and the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever.

Context
Rejoicing in Trials
9But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation: 10And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. 11For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.…
Cross References
Job 14:2
Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

Psalm 39:6
Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

Psalm 103:15
Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.

Isaiah 40:7
The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:

Matthew 6:30
And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith?

1 Corinthians 7:31
And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the fashion of this world passeth away.

1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

James 1:9
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