Yuēbó 8:12

12 Shàng qīng de shíhou , hái méiyǒu gē xià , bǐ bǎi yàng de cǎo xiān kū gǎo .

Yuēbó 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.

Yuēbó 8:12 In-Context

10 Tāmen qǐbù zhǐjiào nǐ , gàosu nǐ , cóng xīnli fāchū yányǔ lái ne .

11 Púcǎo méiyǒu ní , qǐnéng fā zhǎng . lú dí méiyǒu shuǐ , qǐnéng shēng fā .

12 Shàng qīng de shíhou , hái méiyǒu gē xià , bǐ bǎi yàng de cǎo xiān kū gǎo .

13 Fán wàngjì shén de rén , jǐngkuàng yĕ shì zhèyàng . bú qiánjìng rén de zhǐwang yào miè mò .

14 Tā suǒ yǎng laì de bì zhé duàn , tā suǒ yǐkào de shì zhī zhū wǎng .