Job 8:12

12 While it [is] in its budding -- uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.

Job 8:12 In-Context

10 Do they not shew thee -- speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?
11 `Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?
12 While it [is] in its budding -- uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.
13 So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
Young's Literal Translation is in the public domain.