Job 8:11 · KJV
“Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?”
— Job 8:11
Shall not they teach thee, {and} tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Whilst it {is} yet in his greenness, {and} not cut down, it withereth before any {other} herb.
Job 8 — Context
(For we {are but of} yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth {are} a shadow:) {nothing: Heb. not}
10Shall not they teach thee, {and} tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12Whilst it {is} yet in his greenness, {and} not cut down, it withereth before any {other} herb.
13So {are} the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Cross References
Exodus 2:3
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid {it} in the flags by the river's brink.
Isaiah 19:5-7
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.