While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

尚青的时候，还没有割下，比百样的草先枯槁。

它还青翠，没有割下的时候，比百样的草先枯槁。

它还青翠，没有割下的时候，比百样的草先枯槁。

它们还在生长、尚未割下，已比百草先枯萎。

尚青还没有割下来的时候，就比百草先枯槁。

尚青的時候，還沒有割下，比百樣的草先枯槁。

它還青翠，沒有割下的時候，比百樣的草先枯槁。

它還青翠，沒有割下的時候，比百樣的草先枯槁。

它們還在生長、尚未割下，已比百草先枯萎。

尚青還沒有割下來的時候，就比百草先枯槁。

當青葱時、還沒拔起，它比百草先枯乾。

尚青之時、未經芟刈、先百草而枯槁、

青青之時、不待人刈、先百草而凋零。

當青而未刈之時、先百草而枯槁、

While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.

While they are still growing and haven’t been cut, they dry up faster than grass does.

While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.

While they are still flowering, not ready to be cut, they begin to wither more quickly than grass.

While still uncut shoots, they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

While it is still green and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant.

While it is yet green and not cut down, It withers before any other plant.

Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

While still uncut shoots, they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

Whilst it[ is] yet in his greenness,[ and] not cut down, it withereth before any[ other] herb.

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.

But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!