Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
No: but before it be shot forth, and before it be gathered, it withereth; before any other herb.
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.
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 May a rush be green without moisture, or may the grass grow without water? 12 No: but before it be shot forth, and before it be gathered, it withereth; before any other herb. 13 Even so goeth it with all them that forget God: and even thus also shall the hypocrite's hope come to naught.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 17:6
He shall be like the heath that groweth in the wilderness. As for the good thing that is for to come, he shall not see it: but dwell in a dry place of the wilderness, in a salt and unoccupied land."
Psalm 129:6-7
Let them be even as the hay upon the housetops, which withereth afore it be grown up;
Matthew 13:20
But he that was sown in the stony ground, is he which heareth the word of God, and anon with joy receiveth it,
James 1:10-11
and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away.
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass; the grass is withered, and the flower falleth away,