Job 8:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without 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, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well favoured and fatfleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.

Job 8:10

Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?

Job 8:12

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

Exodus 2:3

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.