Job 8:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹¹ “Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Can the rush or papyrus grow up without marsh? Can the flag or reed grass grow without water?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?

Common English Bible

¹¹ Does papyrus grow apart from a marsh? Does a reed flourish without water?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ 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 Nile seven cows sleek and fat, and they fed 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

And when she could hide him no longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds at the river's brink.