Devine Scripture

Job 8:12

Job chapter 8 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.11Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?

v.12This passage

v.13So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 129:6

    Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

  • James 1:10

    and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

  • Matthew 13:20

    And he that was sown upon the rocky places, this is he that heareth the word, and straightway with joy receiveth it;

  • 1 Peter 1:24

    For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

  • 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, a salt land and not inhabited.