Bible verse
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
Job 8:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 8.
8 Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
9 For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
10 Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?
11 Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
12 While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
14 His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
15 He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.
16 He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.
KJV
Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.
ASV
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.
ERV
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
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