Job 8:12

12 Aun él en su verdor no será cortado, Y antes de toda hierba se secará.

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 ¿No te enseñarán ellos, te dirán, Y de su corazón sacarán palabras?

11 ¿Crece el junco sin lodo? ¿Crece el prado sin agua?

12 Aun él en su verdor no será cortado, Y antes de toda hierba se secará.

13 Tales son los caminos de todos los que olvidan á Dios: Y la esperanza del impío perecerá:

14 Porque su esperanza será cortada, Y su confianza es casa de araña.