Job 8:12 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹² Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² While it is yet green, in flower, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb [when without water].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

Common English Bible

¹² While still tender, uncut, it will wither before every other grass.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.

Job 8:12 Cross References

Job 20:5

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

Job 8:11

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

Job 8:13

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

Isaiah 19:6

And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

Jeremiah 17:6

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Matthew 13:20

But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: