Job 8:12

WEB

¹²While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

KJV

¹²Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

BSB

¹²While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.

FBV

¹²Even without being cut, while they are still flowering, they wither faster than grass.

Extra References

Jeremiah 17:6

⁶For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.

¹⁰and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. ¹¹For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

Psalms 129:6-7

⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, ⁷with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

1 Peter 1:24

²⁴For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Matthew 13:20

²⁰What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it;