12While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
12While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
10 Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?
11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?
12 While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
14 What he trusts in is fragile ; what he relies on is a spider's web.
8:12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.
8:12When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
8:12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.
8:12Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withereth before any other grass.
8:12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
8:12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
8:12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
8:12While it is in its budding — uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.
8:12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it wither before any other herb.