Job 8:12

12 Aunque estén floreciendo y nadie los haya cortado,se marchitan antes que otra hierba.

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 Pero ellos te instruirán, te lo harán saber;compartirán contigo su experiencia.

11 ¿Puede crecer el papiro donde no hay pantano?¿Pueden crecer los juncos donde no hay agua?

12 Aunque estén floreciendo y nadie los haya cortado,se marchitan antes que otra hierba.

13 Tal es el destino de los que se olvidan de Dios;así termina la esperanza de los impíos.

14 Muy débiles son sus esperanzas;han puesto su confianza en una telaraña.