Job 8:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.

Job 8:12 Cross References

Job 20:5

that the exulting of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

Job 8:11

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

Job 8:13

Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.

Isaiah 19:6

its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up. Reeds and rushes will rot away,

Jeremiah 17:6

They shall be like a shrub in the desert and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

Matthew 13:20

As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,

1 Peter 1:24

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,