Job 8:11

Geneva Bible (1560)

Can a rush grow without myre? or can ye grasse growe without water?

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  • Exod 2:3 : 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she tooke for him an arke made of reede, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and laide the childe therein, and put it among the bulrushes by the riuers brinke.
  • Isa 19:5-7 : 5 Then the waters of the sea shall faile, and the riuers shall be dryed vp, and wasted. 6 And the riuers shall goe farre away: the riuers of defence shalbe emptied and dryed vp: the reedes and flagges shall be cut downe. 7 The grasse in the riuer, and at the head of the riuers, and all that groweth by the riuer, shall wither, and be driuen away, and be no more.

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  • 12 Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.

  • Job 14:7-9
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    7 For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.

    8 Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, & the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,

    9 Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes like a plant.

  • Ezek 17:8-11
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    8 It was planted in a good soyle by great waters, that it should bring forth branches, and beare fruite, and be an excellent vine.

    9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, Shall it prosper? shall he not pull vp the rootes thereof, and destroy the fruite thereof, and cause them to drie? all the leaues of her bud shall wither without great power, or many people, to plucke it vp by the rootes thereof.

    10 Beholde, it was planted: but shal it prosper? shall it not be dried vp, and wither? when the East winde shall touch it, it shall wither in the trenches, where it grewe.

    11 Moreouer, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

  • 10 Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5 Thou hast ouerflowed them: they are as a sleepe: in the morning he groweth like the grasse:

    6 In the morning it florisheth and groweth, but in the euening it is cut downe and withereth.

  • Job 38:26-28
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    26 To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?

    27 To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?

    28 Who is the father of the rayne? Or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?

  • 4 And they shal grow as among the grasse, and as the willowes by the riuers of waters.

  • 30 For ye shalbe as an oke, whose leafe fadeth: and as a garden that hath no water.

  • 8 For he shall be as a tree that is planted by the water, which spreadeth out her rootes by the riuer, and shall not feele when the heate commeth, but her leafe shall be greene, and shall not care for the yeere of drought, neyther shall cease from yeelding fruit.

  • 25 Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?

  • Isa 19:6-7
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    6 And the riuers shall goe farre away: the riuers of defence shalbe emptied and dryed vp: the reedes and flagges shall be cut downe.

    7 The grasse in the riuer, and at the head of the riuers, and all that groweth by the riuer, shall wither, and be driuen away, and be no more.

  • Ezek 31:4-5
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    4 The waters nourished him, and the deepe exalted him on hie with her riuers running round about his plants, and sent out her litle riuers vnto all the trees of the fielde.

    5 Therefore his height was exalted aboue all the trees of the fielde, and his boughes were multiplied, and his branches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out.

  • Job 8:16-17
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    16 The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.

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

  • Jas 3:11-12
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    11 Doeth a fountaine send forth at one place sweete water and bitter?

    12 Can ye figge tree, my brethren, bring forth oliues, either a vine figges? so can no fountaine make both salt water and sweete.

  • 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to growe, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seede to florish: but the haruest shall be gone in the day of possession, and there shalbe desperate sorrowe.

  • 14 So that none of all the trees by the waters shalbe exalted by their height, neither shall shoote vp their toppe among the thicke boughes, neither shall their leaues stand vp in their height, which drinke so much water: for they are all deliuered vnto death in the nether partes of the earth in the middes of the children of men among them that goe downe to the pit.

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

  • 24 As though they were not plated, as though they were not sowen, as though their stocke tooke no roote in the earth: for he did euen blow vpon them, and they withered, and the whirlewinde will take them away as stubble.

  • 19 For my roote is spread out by the water, and the dewe shall lye vpon my branche.

  • 22 (40:17) Can the trees couer him with their shadow? or can the willowes of the riuer compasse him about?

  • 7 The grasse withereth, the floure fadeth, because the Spirite of the Lorde bloweth vpon it: surely the people is grasse.

  • 2 For they shall soone bee cut downe like grasse, and shall wither as the greene herbe.

  • 16 His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his branche be cut downe.

  • 27 Whose inhabitants haue small power, and are afrayd & confounded: they are like the grasse of the field & greene herbe, or grasse on the house tops, or corne blassed afore it be growen.

  • 6 As the valleis, are they stretched forth, as gardes by the riuers side, as the aloe trees, which the Lorde hath planted, as the cedars beside the waters.

  • 11 For as when the sunne riseth with heate, then the grasse withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the goodly shape of it perisheth: euen so shall the rich man wither away in all his waies.

  • 6 And it budded vp, and was like a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward it, and the rootes thereof were vnder it: so it became a vine, and it brought foorth branches, and shot foorth buds.

  • 6 For the waters of Nimrim shal be dried vp: therefore the grasse is withered, the herbes consumed, and there was no greene herbe.

  • 9 As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.

  • 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither the glainer his lap:

  • 7 And the dry ground shalbe as a poole, and the thirstie (as springs of water in the habitation of dragons: where they lay) shall be a place for reedes and rushes.

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    3 For he shall be like a tree planted by the riuers of waters, that will bring foorth her fruite in due season: whose leafe shall not fade: so whatsoeuer he shall doe, shall prosper.

  • 11 Shee stretched out her branches vnto the Sea, and her boughes vnto the Riuer.

  • Luke 8:6-7
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    6 And some fell on the stones, and when it was sprong vp, it withered away, because it lacked moystnesse.

    7 And some fell among thornes, and the thornes sprang vp with it, and choked it.

  • 7 (When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.

  • 7 Thus was he faire in his greatnesse, and in the length of his branches: for his roote was neere great waters.

  • 4 For the grounde was destroyed, because there was no rayne in the earth: the plowmen were ashamed, and couered their heads.