Job 8:12 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Even if they were fresh and not cut, they would wither quicker than grass.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

Whilst it is yet in its 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.

YLT:

While it is in its budding -- uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.

Job 8:12 Cross References

XREF:

Job 8:11 "Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the rushes grow without water?

Job 8:13 "So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the godless will perish, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

8:12 Greenness - Whereby it promises long continuance. Tho' no man cut it down, it withers of itself, sooner than other herbs.

MHC:

8:8-19 Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A rush growing in fenny ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite's profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider's web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man's pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite's confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.

CONC:

Becomes Budding Cut Dead Dry Flower Grass Green Greenness Herb Plant Quickly Reed Uncropt Uncut Whilst Wither Withereth Withers Yet

Budding Cut Flower Grass Green Greenness Growing Herb Plant Quickly Reed Uncut Whilst Wither Withereth Withers

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