While they are still flowering, not ready to be cut, they begin to wither more quickly than 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 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 they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

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

They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land.

And those who are rich should boast that God has humbled them. They will fade away like a little flower in the field.The hot sun rises and the grass withers; the little flower droops and falls, and its beauty fades away. In the same way, the rich will fade away with all of their achievements.

As the Scriptures say,“ People are like grass; their beauty is like a flower in the field. The grass withers and the flower fades.

The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy.

May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown,ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder.