Job 8:12
Good News Translation
If the water dries up, they are the first to wither, while still too small to be cut and used.

New Revised Standard Version
While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.

Contemporary English Version
and if the water dries up, they die sooner than grass.

New American Bible
While it is yet green and uncut, it withers quicker than any grass.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.

Psalm 129:6,7 Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up: . . .

Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.

Matthew 13:20 And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy.

James 1:10,11 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. . . .

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

Context
Bildad: Job Should Repent
11Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water? 12When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.13Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:…
Cross References
Job 8:11
Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?

Job 8:13
Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

Job 20:5
That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

Job 8:11
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