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10 Will they themselves[a] not teach you and tell you[b]
and utter[c] words from their heart?
11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is not a marsh?
Will reeds flourish without water?[d]
12 While it is in its flower and is not plucked,
yet[e] it withers before[f] all grass.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 8:10 Emphatic personal pronoun
  2. Job 8:10 Literally “they will say to you”
  3. Job 8:10 Literally “they will bring out”
  4. Job 8:11 Or “where there is no water”
  5. Job 8:12 Hebrew “and”
  6. Job 8:12 Literally “to the faces of”