Job 8:12

12 Estando aún verde y sin cortar, con todo, se seca antes que cualquier otra planta.

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 ¿No te instruirán ellos y te hablarán, y de sus corazones sacarán palabras?

11 ¿Puede crecer el papiro sin cenagal? ¿Puede el junco crecer sin agua?

12 Estando aún verde y sin cortar, con todo, se seca antes que cualquier otra planta.

13 Así son las sendas de todos los que se olvidan de Dios, y la esperanza del impío perecerá,

14 porque es frágil su confianza, y una tela de araña su seguridad.