Job 8:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

Cross References

Job 20:5

That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

Job 8:11

Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

Job 8:13

So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:

Isaiah 19:6

And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.

Jeremiah 17:6

For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

Matthew 13:20

And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;

1 Peter 1:24

For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead: