Job 8:12 “While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up more quickly than grass.”

Job 8:12

While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up more quickly than grass.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

Geneva Bible 1599

Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.

Darby Translation

Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.

Young's Literal Translation

While it [is] in its budding — uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.

Bible in Basic English

When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

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Cross references

“Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.”

Jeremiah 17:6 Matthew 13:20 1 Peter 1:24 Psalm 129:6 Psalm 129:7 James 1:10

Jeremiah 17:6 · BSB

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Matthew 13:20 · BSB

The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.

1 Peter 1:24 · BSB

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

Psalm 129:6 · BSB

May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

Psalm 129:7 · BSB

unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.

James 1:10 · BSB

But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.

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