Parallel Verses

NET Bible

While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

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.

Holman Bible

While still uncut shoots,
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.

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 Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water? 12 While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass! 13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes,



Cross References

Jeremiah 17:6

They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.

Psalm 129:6-7

May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,

Matthew 13:20

The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

James 1:10-11

But the rich person's pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

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