Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
While they are still green and not yet ready to be harvested, they wither before any plant.
New American Standard Bible
Yet it withers before any other
King James Version
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Holman Bible
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.
A Conservative Version
While it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, it withers before any [other] herb.
American Standard Version
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.
Amplified
“While it is still green (in flower) and not cut down,
Yet it withers before any other plant [when without water].
Bible in Basic English
When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
Darby Translation
Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withereth before any other grass.
Julia Smith Translation
While yet in its greenness it shall not break off, and it will dry up before grass.
King James 2000
While it is yet green, and not cut down, it withers before any other plant.
Lexham Expanded Bible
While it [is] in its flower [and] is not plucked, yet it withers {before} all grass.
Modern King James verseion
While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it dries out before any other herb.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
No: but before it be shot forth, and before it be gathered, it withereth; before any other herb.
NET Bible
While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!
New Heart English Bible
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
The Emphasized Bible
Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither:
Webster
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
World English Bible
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
Youngs Literal Translation
While it is in its budding -- uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.
Themes
Endurance » What does not endure
Forgetting » Those that forget the lord
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 8:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Bildad's First Response To Job
11 "Can papyrus grow where there's no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water? 12 While they are still green and not yet ready to be harvested, they wither before any plant. 13 Such are the paths of everyone who forgets God the hope of the godless will be destroyed:
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 17:6
He will be like a bush in the desert, and he won't see when good comes. He will dwell in parched places in the wilderness, a land of salt, without inhabitants.
Psalm 129:6-7
May they become like a tuft of grass on a roof top, that withers before it takes root
Matthew 13:20
As for what was sown on the stony ground, this is the person who hears the word and accepts it joyfully at once,
James 1:10-11
and a rich person in his having been humbled, because he will fade away like a wild flower.
1 Peter 1:24
For "All human life is like grass, and all its glory is like a flower in the grass. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,