For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
From Isaiah 40:6-8.
Heat, х to (G3588) kausooni (G2742)] - 'the hot wind' from the (east or) south, which scorches vegetation (Luke 12:55). The "burning heat" of the sun is not at its rising, but at noon; whereas the scorching х Qaadiym (H6921)] wind is often at sunrise (Jonah 4:8) (Middleton, Greek article). Matthew 20:12 uses the Greek for "heat." Isaiah 40:7 "bloweth upon it," answers to 'the hot wind.'
Grace of the fashion, х prosoopou (G4383)] - of the external appearance.
In his ways, х poreiais (G4197)] - the simple word, and that, in the plural, usually ascribed to the rich man, instead of х euporia (G2142)] 'wealth,' to mark his as care-attended "ways" of securing wealth. Compare "ways," paths х hodois (G3598)], James 1:8.