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Job 8:12

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12 Als het nog in zijn groenigheid is, hoewel het niet afgesneden wordt, nochtans verdort het voor alle gras.

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.

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Job 8:12 In-Context

10 Zullen die u niet leren, tot u spreken, en uit hun hart redenen voortbrengen?
11 Verheft zich de bieze zonder slijk? Groeit het rietgras zonder water?
12 Als het nog in zijn groenigheid is, hoewel het niet afgesneden wordt, nochtans verdort het voor alle gras.
13 Alzo zijn de paden van allen, die God vergeten; en de verwachting des huichelaars zal vergaan.
14 Van denwelke zijn hoop walgen zal; en zijn vertrouwen zal zijn een huis der spinnekop.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.

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