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Job 8:11-19
1599 Geneva Bible
Job 8:11-19
1599 Geneva Bible
11 Can a rush [a]grow without mire? or can the grass grow without water?
12 Though it were in green and not cut down, yet shall it wither before any other herb.
13 So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish.
14 His confidence also shall be cut off, and his trust shall be as the house of a [b]spider.
15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.
16 The [c]tree is green before the Sun, and the branches spread over the garden thereof.
17 The roots thereof are wrapped about the fountain, and are folded about the house of stones.
18 If any pluck it from his place, and it [d]deny, saying, I have not seen thee,
19 Behold, it will rejoice [e]by this means, that it may grow in another mold.
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- Job 8:11 As a rush cannot grow without moistness, so cannot the hypocrite, because he hath not faith, which is moistened with God’s Spirit.
- Job 8:14 Which is today, and tomorrow swept away.
- Job 8:16 He compareth the just to a tree, which although it be removed out of one place unto another, yet flourisheth: so the affliction of the godly turneth to their profit.
- Job 8:18 That is, so that there remain nothing there to prove whether the tree had grown there or no.
- Job 8:19 To be planted in another place, where it may grow at pleasure.
Job 8:11-19
New International Version
Job 8:11-19
New International Version
11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?(A)
Can reeds(B) thrive without water?
12 While still growing and uncut,
they wither more quickly than grass.(C)
13 Such is the destiny(D) of all who forget God;(E)
so perishes the hope of the godless.(F)
14 What they trust in is fragile[a];
what they rely on is a spider’s web.(G)
15 They lean on the web,(H) but it gives way;
they cling to it, but it does not hold.(I)
16 They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,
spreading its shoots(J) over the garden;(K)
17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks
and looks for a place among the stones.
18 But when it is torn from its spot,
that place disowns(L) it and says, ‘I never saw you.’(M)
19 Surely its life withers(N) away,
and[b] from the soil other plants grow.(O)
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