Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
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.
International Standard Version
While they are still green and not yet ready to be harvested, they wither before any 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!
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 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 shall perish,
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 17:6
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, a salt land and not inhabited.
Psalm 129:6-7
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
Matthew 13:20
And what was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
James 1:10-11
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
For, "All flesh is like grass, and all it's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;