Job 8:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the reed grow without water?

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  • Exod 2:3 : 3 And when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, and coated it with tar and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it among the reeds by the river's edge.
  • Isa 19:5-7 : 5 The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 They shall turn the rivers away; the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up; the reeds and rushes shall wither. 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

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    12While it is still green and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

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    8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;

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  • Ezek 17:8-11
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    8It was planted in good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches and bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

    9Say thus says the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, that it withers? It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.

    10Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

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

  • Job 8:10
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    10Will they not teach you, and tell you, and speak words from their heart?

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

    6In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

  • Job 38:26-28
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    26To cause it to rain on the earth where no one is, on the wilderness, where there is no man;

    27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the sprout of tender grass to spring forth?

    28Does the rain have a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

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    4And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

  • Isa 1:30
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    30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be anxious in the year of drought, nor cease from yielding fruit.

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    25Will you break a leaf driven to and fro, and will you pursue dry stubble?

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    6They shall turn the rivers away; the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up; the reeds and rushes shall wither.

    7The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

  • Ezek 31:4-5
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    4The waters made it great, the deep set it up on high with its rivers running around its plants, and sent out its little rivers to all the trees of the field.

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    16He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.

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  • Jas 3:11-12
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    11In the day you shall make your plant to grow, and in the morning you shall make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

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    11As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decays and dries up,

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    24Indeed, they shall not be planted; indeed, they shall not be sown; indeed, their stock shall not take root in the earth; and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

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    19My root spread out to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.

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    22The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook surround him.

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    7The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.

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    2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

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    16His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off.

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    7Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was by great waters.

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    4Because the ground is cracked, for there was no rain on the earth, the farmers were ashamed, they covered their heads.