Job 8:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.”
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“While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“While it <FI>is<Fi> in its budding--uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 8:12 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 129:6May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
- Isaiah 19:6The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
- 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.
- Matthew 13:20The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
- 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.
- 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,
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