Job 8:12

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.”

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BSBPD

“While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“While it <FI>is<Fi> in its budding--uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 8:12 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 129:6May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
  2. Isaiah 19:6The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
  3. Jeremiah 17:6He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
  4. Matthew 13:20The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
  5. James 1:10But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
  6. 1 Peter 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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