New Revised Standard Version
for they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Contemporary English Version
They will soon disappear like grass without rain.

New American Bible
Like grass they wither quickly; like green plants they wilt away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.

For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.

Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus. . . .

Psalm 73:17-20 Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends. . . .

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

Psalm 92:7 When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

Psalm 129:5-7 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion. . . .

Job 20:5-9 That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. . . .

James 1:10,11 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass 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.