Job 8:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² Whilst it is yet in its 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.

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 triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless 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 hope of the godless man shall perish:

Isaiah 19:6

And the rivers shall stink; the streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither away.

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, a salt land and not inhabited.

Matthew 13:20

And he that was sown upon the rocky places, this is he that heareth the word, and straightway with joy receiveth it;

1 Peter 1:24

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