Job 8:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Jer 17:6 : 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
  • Matt 13:20 : 20 The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with a burning heat, and it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 Because "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,
  • Ps 129:6-7 : 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up: 7 With which the mower does not fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves his bosom.

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  • Job 14:7-10
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    7For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease.

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    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.

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    32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

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