Job 8:12 — King James Version← Study notes
“Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.”
Job 8:12 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Job 8:128 words
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Church Fathers on Job 8:12
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite's hope shall perish. So that by the name of ‘a rush’ or ‘a flag,’ he denotes the life of the hypocrite, which has an appearance of greenness, but has no fruit of usefulness for the services of man, which continuing dry in barrenness of practice, is green with only the colour of sanctity alone. But neither does a rush grow without…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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