Job 8:12

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 17:6 : 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.
  • Matt 13:20 : 20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 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:
  • Ps 129:6-7 : 6 Let them be as the grass upon the houseto, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

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