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Hiob 8:12

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12 Sonst wenn's noch in der Blüte ist, ehe es abgehauen wird, verdorrt es vor allem Gras.

Hiob 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.

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Hiob 8:12 In-Context

10 Sie werden dich's lehren und dir sagen und ihre Rede aus ihrem Herzen hervorbringen:
11 "Kann auch ein Rohr aufwachsen, wo es nicht feucht steht? oder Schilf wachsen ohne Wasser?
12 Sonst wenn's noch in der Blüte ist, ehe es abgehauen wird, verdorrt es vor allem Gras.
13 So geht es allen denen, die Gottes vergessen; und die Hoffnung der Heuchler wird verloren sein.
14 Denn seine Zuversicht vergeht, und seine Hoffnung ist eine Spinnwebe.
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