Job 8:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Can the rush or papyrus grow up without marsh? Can the flag or reed grass grow without water?

American Standard Version (1901)

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?

Common English Bible

Does papyrus grow apart from a marsh? Does a reed flourish without water?

Catholic Public Domain Version

Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Can the rush be green without moisture, or a sedge-bush grow without water?

Job 8:11 Cross References

Genesis 41:2

and there came up out of the Nile seven sleek and fat cows, and they grazed in the reed grass.

Job 8:10

Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?

Job 8:12

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

Exodus 2:3

When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.