12While it is in its budding — uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.


In Context

9 (For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)

10 Do they not shew thee — speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

11 'Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?

12 While it is in its budding — uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.

13 So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

Job 8:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:12While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:12When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:12Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withereth before any other grass.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it wither before any other herb.