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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.
Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.
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 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
and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.
And turn back do the waters from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
and the waters have been going and becoming lacking till the tenth month; in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, appeared the heads of the mountains.
And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah openeth the window of the ark which he made,
and he sendeth forth the raven, and it goeth out, going out and turning back till the drying of the waters from off the earth.
And he sendeth forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,
And he stayeth yet other seven days, and addeth to send forth the dove from the ark;
Look unto Jehovah -- be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!
And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.
And [one] hath said in that day, `Lo, this [is] our God, We waited for Him, and He saveth us, This [is] Jehovah, we have waited for Him, We joy and rejoice in His salvation.'
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.
