Job 8:12

12 Encore vert et sans qu'on le coupe, Il sèche plus vite que toutes les herbes.

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 Ils t'instruiront, ils te parleront, Ils tireront de leur coeur ces sentences:

11 Le jonc croît-il sans marais? Le roseau croît-il sans humidité?

12 Encore vert et sans qu'on le coupe, Il sèche plus vite que toutes les herbes.

13 Ainsi arrive-t-il à tous ceux qui oublient Dieu, Et l'espérance de l'impie périra.

14 Son assurance est brisée, Son soutien est une toile d'araignée.