יעקב 1:11

Delitzsche Hebrew New Testament

כִּי זָרַח הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ בְּחַמָּתוֹ וַיְיַבֵּשׁ אֶת־הֶחָצִיר וַיִּבֹּל צִיצוֹ וְחֵן מַרְאֵהוּ אָבָד כֵּן יִבּוֹל הֶעָשִׁיר בַּהֲלִיכוֹתָיו׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Modern Translation
כי זרח השמש בחמתו וייבש את החציר ויבל ציצו וחסד מראהו אבד כן יבול העשיר בהליכותיו׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

risen: Isaiah 49:10, Jonah 4:7, Jonah 4:8, Matthew 13:6, Mark 4:6

so: James 5:1-7, Job 21:24-30, Psalms 37:35, Psalms 37:36, Psalms 49:6-14, Psalms 73:18-20, Ecclesiastes 5:15, Isaiah 28:1, Isaiah 28:4, Isaiah 40:7, Isaiah 40:8, Luke 12:16-21, Luke 16:19-25, 1 Corinthians 7:31, 1 Peter 1:4, 1 Peter 5:4

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:46 - fade away 2 Kings 19:26 - they were Job 4:21 - excellency Job 7:6 - swifter Job 8:12 - General Job 14:2 - like Job 15:29 - neither shall Job 24:24 - are exalted Psalms 18:45 - strangers Psalms 37:2 - General Psalms 49:12 - in honour Psalms 90:5 - morning Psalms 92:7 - wicked Psalms 103:15 - his days Proverbs 31:30 - Favour Isaiah 37:27 - as the grass of Isaiah 40:6 - All flesh Isaiah 51:12 - man which Isaiah 64:6 - we all Jeremiah 8:13 - the leaf Ezekiel 28:6 - Because Matthew 6:30 - clothe Matthew 21:20 - How Luke 12:27 - the lilies Luke 16:22 - the rich Luke 16:26 - between Luke 19:8 - Behold John 6:27 - the meat Acts 25:23 - with 1 Peter 1:24 - all flesh 1 John 2:17 - the world Revelation 7:16 - the sun Revelation 8:7 - the third

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat,.... As it is about the middle of the day, when it shines in its full strength, and its heat is very great and scorching, especially in the summer season, and in hot climates:

but it withereth the grass; strikes it with heat, causes it to shrivel, and dries it up;

and the flower thereof falleth; drops off from it to the ground:

and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; its form and colour, its glory and beauty, which were pleasant to the eye, are lost, and no more to be recovered. This shows, that earthly riches, like the flower of the field, have an outward show and glory in them, which attract the mind, and fix an attention to them for a while; they are gay and glittering, and look lovely, are pleasant to behold, and desirable to enjoy; but when the sun of persecution, or any other outward calamity arises, they are quickly destroyed, and are no more.

So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways; riches are uncertain things now, they often make themselves wings and flee away; they are things that are not, that are not solid and substantial they are a vain show; they sometimes fade away in a man's lifetime, before he dies; and he fades away, and comes to decay, amidst all the ways and means, designs and schemes, he forms and pursues, and all the actions and business he does; and if not, when he fades away, and dies amidst all his riches, his glory does not descend after him, but falls off from him, as the flower of the field before the heat of the sun.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat - Isaiah Isaiah 40:7 employs the word “wind,” referring to a burning wind that dries up the flowers. It is probable that the apostle also refers not so much to the sun itself, as to the hot and fiery wind called the simoom, which often rises with the sun, and which consumes the green herbage of the fields. So Rosenmuller and Bloomfield interpret it.

It withereth the grass - Isaiah 40:7. It withereth the stalk, or that which, when dried, produces hay or fodder - the word here used being commonly employed in the latter sense. The meaning is, that the effect of the hot wind is to wither the stalk or spire which supports the flower, and when that is dried up, the flower itself falls. This idea will give increased beauty and appropriateness to the figure - that man himself is blasted and withered, and then that all the external splendor which encircled him falls to the ground, like a flower whose support is gone.

And the grace of the fashion of it perisheth - Its beauty disappears.

So shall the rich man fade away in his ways - That is, his splendor, and all on which he prideth himself, shall vanish. The phrase “in his ways,” according to Rosenmuller, refers to his counsels, his plans, his purposes; and the meaning is, that the rich man, with all by which he is known, shall vanish. A man’s “ways,” that is, his mode of life, or those things by which he appears before the world, may have somewhat the same relation to him which the flower has to the stalk on which it grows, and by which it is sustained. The idea of James seems to be, that as it was indisputable that the rich man must soon disappear, with all that he had of pomp and splendor in the view of the world, it was well for him to be reminded of it by every change of condition; and that he should therefore rejoice in the providential dispensation by which his property would be taken away, and by which the reality of his religion would be tested. We should rejoice in anything by which it can be shown whether we are prepared for heaven or not.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. For the sun is no sooner risen — We need not pursue this metaphor, as St. James' meaning is sufficiently clear: All human things are transitory; rise and fall, or increase and decay, belong to all the productions of the earth, and to all its inhabitants. This is unavoidable, for in many cases the very cause of their growth becomes the cause of their decay and destruction. The sun by its genial heat nourishes and supports all plants and animals; but when it arises with a burning heat, the atmosphere not being tempered with a sufficiency of moist vapours, the juices are exhaled from the plants; the earth, for lack of moisture, cannot afford a sufficient supply; vegetation becomes checked; and the plants soon wither and die. Earthly possessions are subject to similar mutations. God gives and resumes them at his pleasure, and for reasons which he seldom explains to man. He shows them to be uncertain, that they may never become an object of confidence to his followers, and that they may put their whole trust in God. If for righteousness' sake any of those who were in affluence suffer loss, or spoiling of their goods, they should consider that, while they have gained that of infinite worth, they have lost what is but of little value, and which in the nature of things they must soon part with, though they should suffer nothing on account of religion.