יעקב 1:10
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
הערת לימוד
Study Note
'But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away' — James's instruction to the rich believer to boast in humiliation deliberately inverts worldly status-logic: the proper Christian posture for the wealthy is identification with one's own mortality and transience rather than financial standing. The flower-of-the-field image for human transience draws directly on Isaiah 40:6–8 ('all flesh is as grass... the grass withereth'), placing the rich person within the universal pattern of creaturely fragility. The verse functions as a radical leveler: the only appropriate Christian boasting is in the cross (Galatians 6:14), before which every other form of human achievement is relativized by its own impermanence.
תרגומים נוספים
and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;
But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.
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