While it is yet green, and not cut down, it withers before any other plant.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Herbs, for want of moisture. (Calmet)
Sic transit gloria mundi. (Haydock)
The prophets often compare the prosperity of the wicked to grass, (Psalm xxxvi. 2., and James i. 10.) and Baldad ranks Job with them.