Job 8:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.

New Living Translation
While they are still flowering, not ready to be cut, they begin to wither more quickly than grass.

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

Berean Study Bible
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.

New American Standard Bible
“While it is still green and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant.

NASB 1995
"While it is still green and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant.

NASB 1977
“While it is still green and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant.

Amplified Bible
“While it is still green (in flower) and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant [when without water].

Christian Standard Bible
While still uncut shoots, they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
While still uncut shoots, they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Even if they were fresh and not cut, they would wither quicker than grass.

International Standard Version
While they are still green and not yet ready to be harvested, they wither before any plant.

NET Bible
While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

New King James Version
While it is yet green and not cut down, It withers before any other plant.

King James 2000 Bible
While it is yet green, and not cut down, it withers before any other plant.

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

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

American King James Version
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it wither before any other herb.

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

A Faithful Version
While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it dries out before any other herb.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
No, but whilste it is nowe in his greennesse, though it be not cut downe, yet withereth it before any other hearbe:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
No: but (or euer it be shot forth, and or euer it be gathered) it wythereth, before eny other herbe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
While it [is] in its budding—uncropped, "" Even before any herb it withers.

Young's Literal Translation
While it is in its budding -- uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.

Smith's Literal Translation
While yet in its greenness it shall not break off, and it will dry up before grass.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
While it is in its growth it is not picked, and before all grass it dries up

Lamsa Bible
While they are yet in their greenness, and not cut down, they wither before any other herb.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
When it is yet on the root, and though it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture?
















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