Job 8:11

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

Exodus 2:3

and she hath not been able any more to hide him, and she taketh for him an ark of rushes, and daubeth it with bitumen and with pitch, and putteth the lad in it, and putteth it in the weeds by the edge of the River;

Isaiah 19:5-7

And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.

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Summary

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

Bible References

The rush

Exodus 2:3
and she hath not been able any more to hide him, and she taketh for him an ark of rushes, and daubeth it with bitumen and with pitch, and putteth the lad in it, and putteth it in the weeds by the edge of the River;
Isaiah 19:5
And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.