Sentences with phrase «plant of the field»

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).

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?

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».

Adam would eat the plants of the field.

Gen 3:18 «Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; Gen 3:19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.»

Which is even described in the book of Genesis 2:5 - 6 — 5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown.