Job 8:11

Bishops' Bible (1568)

May a rushe be greene without moystnesse? or may the grasse growe without water?

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  • Exod 2:3 : 3 And when she coulde no longer hyde hym, she toke a basket made of bull russhes, and dawbed it with slyme and pitche, and layed the chylde therein, and put it in the flagges by the riuers brinke
  • Isa 19:5-7 : 5 The waters of the sea shall fayle, and the riuer shall decrease and be dryed vp. 6 The waters shalbe drawen out, the riuers of Egypt shalbe emptied & dryed vp, the reedes and flagges shalbe cut downe. 7 The grasse in the riuer and by the riuers bancke, and all that groweth by the riuer, shall wither away, and be brought to naught.

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    12No, but whilste it is nowe in his greennesse, though it be not cut downe, yet withereth it before any other hearbe:

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    8Though the roote of it be waxen olde, and the stocke thereof be dead in the grounde:

    9Yet when it getteth the sent of water, it wyll budde and bring foorth bowes, lyke as a tree that is planted.

  • Ezek 17:8-11
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    8It was planted vpon a good soyle beside great waters, so that it should haue brought out braunches, & borne fruite, and haue ben a goodly vine.

    9Speake thou therfore, thus saith the Lorde God: Shall this vine prosper? shall he not pull vp the rootes therof, and destroy the fruite thereof, and cause them to dry? all the leaues of her bud shall wither without great power, or many people, to plucke it vp by the rootes thereof.

    10Behold, it was planted: Shall it prosper therfore? Shall it not be dryed vp and withered? when the east winde shall touche it, it shall wither in the trenches where it grewe.

    11Moreouer, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:

  • Job 8:10
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    10Shall not they shew thee, and tel thee, yea and gladly confesse the same, and vtter the wordes of their heart?

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5Thou makest them to flowe away, they are a sleepe: they be in the morning as an hearbe that groweth.

    6In the mornyng it florisheth and groweth vp: in the euenyng it is cut downe and wythered.

  • Job 38:26-28
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    26To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth?

    27To satisfie the desolate and waste grounde, and to cause the budde of the hearbe to spring foorth.

    28Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the deawe?

  • Isa 44:4
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    4They shall growe together lyke as the grasse, and as the willowes by the waters side.

  • Isa 1:30
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    30For ye shalbe as a tree whose leaues are fallen away, and as a garden that hath no moystnesse.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8For he shalbe as a tree that is planted by the water side, which spreadeth out the roote vnto moystnesse, whom the heate can not harme when it commeth, but his leafe shalbe greene: And though there growe but litle fruite because of drouth, yet is he not carefull, but he neuer leaueth of to bryng foorth fruite.

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    25Wylt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro, and wilt thou pursue the drye stubble?

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    6The waters shalbe drawen out, the riuers of Egypt shalbe emptied & dryed vp, the reedes and flagges shalbe cut downe.

    7The grasse in the riuer and by the riuers bancke, and all that groweth by the riuer, shall wither away, and be brought to naught.

  • Ezek 31:4-5
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    4The waters made him great, and the deepe set him vp on hye, with her riuers running rounde about his plantes, and sent out her litle riuers vnto all the trees of the fielde.

    5Therefore was he higher then all the trees of the fielde, and his bowes were multiplied, & his braunches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out.

  • Job 8:16-17
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    16It is a greene tree before the sunne, & shooteth foorth the braunches ouer his garden.

    17The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountayne, and are folden about the house of stones.

  • Jas 3:11-12
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    11Doth a fountayne sende foorth at one place, sweete water, and bitter also?

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  • Isa 17:11
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    11In that day shalt thou make thy plant to growe, and early in the mornyng shalt thou make thy seede to florishe: The haruest shalbe gone in the day of inheritaunce, and there shalbe sorowe without hope of comfort.

  • Ezek 31:14
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    14So that none of all the trees by the waters shalbe exalted in their heyght, nor shoot vp their toppes among the thycke bowes, neither shall their trees stande in their heyght, as many of them as drinke water: for they are all deliuered vnto death in the neather partes of the earth, in the mids of the children of men among them that go downe to the pit.

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    11As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp:

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    24So that of them it may be sayde, they be not planted nor sowne agayne, neither their stocke rooted agayne in the earth: for assoone as he bloweth vpon them, they wither and fade away lyke the strawe in a whirle winde.

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    19For my roote was spread out by the waterside: and the deawe lay vpon my corne.

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    22The trees couer him with their shadowe, and the wyllowes of the brooke compasse him about.

  • Isa 40:7
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    7The grasse is withered, the floure falleth away, for the breath of the Lord bloweth vpon them: of a trueth the people are grasse.

  • Ps 37:2
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    2For they shall soone be cut downe like the grasse: and be withered euen as the greene hearbe.

  • Job 18:16
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    16His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his braunche be cut downe.

  • Isa 37:27
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    27For their inhabitours shalbe like lame men brought in feare and confounded: they shalbe lyke grasse and greene hearbes in the fielde, lyke the hay vpon house toppes, that wythereth before it be growen vp.

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    11For the sunne hath rysen with heate, and the grasse hath withered, and his flowre hath fallen away, & the beautie of the fashion of it hath perished: So also shall the ryche man fade away in his wayes.

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    6Then did it grow, and was a spreading vine, but lowe of stature, whose braunches turned towarde it, and the rootes of it were vnder it: thus there came of it a vine, and it brought foorth braunches, and shot foorth buddes.

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    6For the waters of Nimrim shalbe dryed vp, by reason wherof the grasse is withered, the hearbes destroyed, and the greene thynges gone.

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    6And some fell on stones, and assoone as it was sprong vp, it withered away, because it lacked moystnes.

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    7Wheras the vngodly do bud vp greene as the grasse, and wheras all workers of iniquitie do florishe: that they notwithstandyng shalbe destroyed for euer and euer.

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    7Beautiful was he in his greatnesse, and in the length of his braunches: for his roote stoode beside great waters.

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    4For the grounde is dryed, because there commeth no rayne vpon it: the plowmen also be ashamed and couer their heades.