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Job 8:12
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While still uncut shoots,they would dry up quicker than any other plant.
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
While they are still growing and not yet cut, they will dry up quicker than grass.
While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!
"While it is still green (in flower) and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant [when without water].
"While it is still green and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant.
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.
While it is still green and not cut down,Yet it dries up before any other plant.
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
and if the water dries up, they die sooner than grass.
While still green, before being cut down, it dries up faster than any other plant.
Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
No, they will dry up before harvest. They will be too small to cut and use.
While they are yet in their greenness, and not cut down, they wither before any other herb.
If the water dries up, they are the first to wither, while still too small to be cut and used.
While it is in its flower and is not plucked, yet it withers before all grass.
While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it dries out before every plant.
No: but (or euer it be shot forth, and or euer it be gathered) it wythereth, before eny other herbe.
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.
When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Whilest it is yet in his greennesse, and not cut downe, it withereth before any other herbe.
No, but whilste it is nowe in his greennesse, though it be not cut downe, yet withereth it before any other hearbe:
When it is yet on the root, and though it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture?
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Whanne it is yit in the flour, nethir is takun with hond, it wexeth drie bifor alle erbis.
While it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withers before any [other] herb.
Whilst it [is] yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.
While it is yet green and not cut down, It withers before any other plant.
While they are still flowering, not ready to be cut, they begin to wither more quickly than grass.
While it is still green and not cut, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither:
When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked u with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
While it [is] in its budding -- uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.
"While it is still green and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Psalms 129:6, Psalms 129:7, Jeremiah 17:6, Matthew 13:20, James 1:10, James 1:11, 1 Peter 1:24
Reciprocal: Esther 5:12 - to morrow
Cross-References
The fountaines also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the raine from heauen was restrained,
And the waters returned from aboue the earth, going and returning: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftieth day the waters abated.
And the waters were going and decreasing vntill the tenth moneth: in the tenth moneth, and in the first day of the moneth were the toppes of the mountaines seene.
So after fourtie dayes, Noah opened the windowe of the Arke, which he had made,
And sent forth a rauen, which went out going forth and returning, vntill the waters were dried vp vpon the earth.
Againe he sent a doue from him, that he might see if the waters were diminished from off the earth.
And he abode yet other seuen dayes, and againe he sent forth the doue out of the Arke.
Hope in the Lord: be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart, and trust in the Lord.
Therefore I will waite vpon the Lord that hath hid his face from the house of Iaakob, and I wil looke for him.
And in that day shall men say, Loe, this is our God: we haue waited for him, and he wil saue vs. This is the Lorde, we haue waited for him: we will reioyce and be ioyfull in his saluation.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Whilst it [is] yet in its greenness,.... Before it is come to its full height, or to a proper ripeness; when as yet it has not flowered, or is about it; before the time usual for it to turn and change; it being without moisture, water, or watery clay, will change;
[and] not cut down; by the scythe, or cropped by the hand of man,
it withereth before any [other] herb; of itself; rather sooner than such that do not require so much moisture; or in the sight and presence of them, they looking on as it were, and deriding it; a poetical representation, as Schultens observes: next follows the accommodation of these similes to wicked and hypocritical men.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Whilst it is yet in his greenness - That is, while it seems to be in its vigor.
And is not cut down - Even when it is not cut down. If suffered to stand by itself, and if undisturbed, it will wither away. The application of this is obvious and beautiful. Such plants have no self sustaining power. They are dependent on moisture for their support. If that is withheld, they droop and die. So with the prosperous sinner and the hypocrite. His piety, compared with that which is genuine, is like the spongy texture of the paper-reed compared with the solid oak. He is sustained in his professed religion by outward prosperity, as the rush is nourished by moisture; and the moment his prosperity is withdrawn, his religion droops and dies like the flag without water.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 8:12. Whilst it is yet in his greenness — We do not know enough of the natural history of this plant to be able to discern the strength of this allusion; but we learn from it that, although this plant be very succulent, and grow to a great size, yet it is short-lived, and speedily withers; and this we may suppose to be in the dry season, or on the retreat of the waters of the Nile. However, Soon RIPE, soon ROTTEN, is a maxim in horticulture.
