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Job 8:12
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
Job 8:12 · World English Bible
Job 8:12 in other translations
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
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In context
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
11 “Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
14 whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
15 He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
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