Job 8:11

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Can papyrus grow tall without a marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?

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  • Exod 2:3 : 3 When she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket, coated it with tar and pitch, placed the child inside, and laid it among the reeds along the riverbank.
  • Isa 19:5-7 : 5 The waters will dry up from the sea, and the river will be parched and dry. 6 The rivers will stink, the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up; reeds and rushes will wither. 7 The meadows by the Nile, along the banks of the river, and all sown land by the Nile will wither, be blown away, and be no more.

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  • Job 8:12
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    12 While still in their greenness and not cut down, they wither more quickly than any grass.

  • Job 14:7-9
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    7 At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not fail.

    8 Even if its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

    9 at the scent of water it will bud and produce branches like a young plant.

  • Ezek 17:8-11
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    8 It was planted in fertile soil by abundant waters to produce branches, bear fruit, and become a splendid vine.

    9 Say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and its fruit stripped so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a great effort or many people to pull it out by its roots.

    10 Even if transplanted, will it thrive? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes it, drying up in the very garden bed where it grew?’

    11 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Job 8:10
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    10 Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5 You sweep them away like a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that springs up in the morning—

    6 In the morning it flourishes and grows, but by evening it withers and dries up.

  • Job 38:26-28
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    26 to water a land where no man lives, an uninhabited desert,

    27 to satisfy the desolate and waste ground and make the dry, barren land produce grass?

    28 Does the rain have a father, or who gives birth to the dew drops?

  • Isa 44:4
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    4 They will sprout up like grass among the meadows, like willows by flowing streams.

  • Isa 1:30
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    30 For you will be like a terebinth whose leaves wither, and like a garden without water.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8 They will be like a tree planted by water, stretching out its roots by a stream. It will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves remain green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease to produce fruit.

  • Job 13:25
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    25 Will You terrify a wind-driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?

  • Isa 19:6-7
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    6 The rivers will stink, the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up; reeds and rushes will wither.

    7 The meadows by the Nile, along the banks of the river, and all sown land by the Nile will wither, be blown away, and be no more.

  • Ezek 31:4-5
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    4 The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, sending its rivers around its planting place, and they watered all the trees of the field.

    5 So it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long because of the abundance of water as it sent them out.

  • Job 8:16-17
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    16 They are green before the sun, and their shoots spread out over the garden.

    17 Their roots are entwined around a heap of rocks; they look for a home among the stones.

  • Jas 3:11-12
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    11 Does a spring pour forth both sweet and bitter water from the same opening?

    12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt spring yield fresh water.

  • Isa 17:11
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    11 Though on the day you plant them you make them grow, and in the morning you make your seed blossom, yet the harvest will be a heap on the day of grief and incurable pain.

  • Ezek 31:14
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    14 This happened so that no trees beside the abundant waters may grow tall enough to reach the clouds, nor lift their tops among the thick branches, and no trees that drink water will stand before them in their height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the lower earth, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.

  • Job 14:11
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    11 As the waters of a lake dry up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

  • Isa 40:24
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    24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

  • Job 29:19
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    19 My roots spread out to the waters, and the dew stayed overnight on my branches.

  • Job 40:22
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    22 The lotus trees conceal him in their shade; the willows of the brook surround him.

  • Isa 40:7
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    7 The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are like grass.

  • Ps 37:2
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    2 For they will soon wither like grass and fade like green plants.

  • Job 18:16
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    16 His roots below will dry up, and his branches above will wither.

  • Isa 37:27
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    27 Their inhabitants, stripped of strength, were dismayed and put to shame. They were like grass in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the housetops, scorched before it grows up.

  • Num 24:6
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    6 Like valleys they stretch out, like gardens along a river, like aloes planted by the LORD, like cedars beside the waters.

  • Jas 1:11
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    11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat, and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. In the same way, the rich person will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

  • Ezek 17:6
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    6 The plant sprouted and became a low, spreading vine, with its branches facing the eagle and its roots growing beneath it. So it became a vine, produced branches, and sent out leaves.

  • Isa 15:6
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    6 The waters of Nimrim are desolate. The grass is withered, the vegetation has vanished, and nothing green remains.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9 Like a slug that melts away as it moves, like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms.

  • Isa 35:7
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    7 The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. In the habitation of jackals, where they lie, grass will grow with reeds and rushes.

  • Ps 1:3
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    3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither; whatever he does prospers.

  • Ps 80:11
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    11 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.

  • Luke 8:6-7
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    6 Other seed fell on rocky ground, and when it grew up, it withered because it had no moisture.

    7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.

  • Ps 92:7
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    7 A senseless person does not know, and a fool does not understand this:

  • Ezek 31:7
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    7 It was majestic in its size, with long branches, because its roots reached abundant waters.

  • Jer 14:4
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    4 Because the ground is cracked due to the lack of rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

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