Man, of course, is like one of the natural objects in the hands of man: «Their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops...» What is forgotten is that when the power of man is unleashed it is never in the hands of all men («man» here means some men rather than all men, and this is even more flagrantly so today). (religion-online.org)
I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins, 26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown? (religion-online.org)
But then Genesis 1 is disproved by Genesis 2: in Gen 1 the plants are created on day 3 and man on day 6, whereas in Gen 2 Adam is created «when no plant of the field was yet in the earth». (faith.org.uk)