Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

New American Standard Bible

“While it is still green and not cut down,
Yet it withers before any other plant.

King James Version

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

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!

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Whilst it is yet in his greenness
H3
אב 
'eb 
Usage: 2

and not cut down
קטף 
Qataph 
Usage: 5

יבשׁ 
Yabesh 
Usage: 69

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

References

Easton

Watsons

Context Readings

Bildad's First Response To Job

11 Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Do reeds flourish without water?
12 While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.
13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless will perish.



Cross References

Jeremiah 17:6

He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.

Psalm 129:6-7

Let them be like grass on the rooftops,
which withers before it grows up

Matthew 13:20

And the one sown on rocky ground—this is one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

James 1:10-11

but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

1 Peter 1:24

For

All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,

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