Job 8:12
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Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
In other translations
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.He 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 as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
- Psalm 129:6-76 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.6 May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow, 7 unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.
- James 1:10-1110 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.10 But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field. 11 For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
- Matthew 13:20But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
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