Job 8:12 · KJV
“Whilst it {is} yet in his greenness, {and} not cut down, it withereth before any {other} herb.”
— Job 8:12
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
So {are} the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Job 8 — Context
Shall 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:
14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust {shall be} a spider's web. {web: Heb. house}
Cross References
Jeremiah 17:6
For 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.
Matthew 13:20
But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
1 Peter 1:24
For 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: or, For that}
Psalms 129:6-7
Let them be as the grass {upon} the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
James 1:10-11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.