Job 8:12

12 Even if they were fresh and not cut, they would wither 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 Won't their words teach you? Won't they share their thoughts with you?

11 "Can papyrus grow up where there is no swamp? Can rushes grow tall without water?

12 Even if they were fresh and not cut, they would wither quicker than grass.

13 The same thing happens to all who forget God. The hope of the godless dies.

14 His confidence is easily shattered. His trust is a spider's web.