Job 8:12

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

ASV

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

LSV

While it [is] in its budding—uncropped, || Even before any herb it withers.

YLT

While it [is] in its budding — uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.

DBY

Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.

DRC

When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.

GNV

Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.

JPS

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

LXXE

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?

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WLC

עֹדֶ֣נּוּ בְ֭אִבּוֹ לֹ֣א יִקָּטֵ֑ף וְלִפְנֵ֖י כָל־חָצִ֣יר יִיבָֽשׁ׃

LXX-Br

Ἔτι ὂν ἐπὶ ῥίζης, καὶ οὐ μὴ θερισθῇ, πρὸ τοῦ πιεῖν πᾶσα βοτάνη οὐχὶ ξηραίνεται;

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• 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.
• 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,
• James 1:10–11But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field. For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So…
• Psalms 129:6–7May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow, unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.
• Matthew 13:20The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.

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