Job 8:12

12 Aun él en su verdor sin haber sido cortado, y antes de toda hierba se seca.

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 ¿Por ventura ellos no te enseñarán, te dirán, y de su corazón sacarán estas palabras?

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

12 Aun él en su verdor sin haber sido cortado, y antes de toda hierba se seca.

13 Tales son los caminos de todos los que olvidan a Dios; y la esperanza del impío perecerá.

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