Job 8:12

12 While they are still growing and not yet cut, they will dry up quicker than grass.

Job 8:12 Meaning and Commentary

Job 8:12

Whilst it [is] yet in its greenness
Before it is come to its full height, or to a proper ripeness; when as yet it has not flowered, or is about it; before the time usual for it to turn and change; it being without moisture, water, or watery clay, will change;

[and] not cut down;
by the scythe, or cropped by the hand of man,

it withereth before any [other] herb;
of itself; rather sooner than such that do not require so much moisture; or in the sight and presence of them, they looking on as it were, and deriding it; a poetical representation, as Schultens observes: next follows the accommodation of these similes to wicked and hypocritical men.

Job 8:12 In-Context

10 Those people will teach you and tell you and speak about what they know.

11 Papyrus plants cannot grow where there is no swamp, and reeds cannot grow tall without water.

12 While they are still growing and not yet cut, they will dry up quicker than grass.

13 That is what will happen to those who forget God; the hope of the wicked will be gone.

14 What they hope in is easily broken; what they trust is like a spider's web.