Job 8:12

Modern English Version

While it is yet green and not cut down, it withers before any other plant.

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:6

For he will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

1 Peter 1:24

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

Matthew 13:20

But he who received the seed on rocky ground is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,

Job 8:11

Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the reed grow without water?

Job 8:13

So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope will perish,

Job 20:5

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

Isaiah 19:6

The canals shall emit a stench; the streams of Egypt shall diminish and dry up; the reeds and rushes shall wither.