TheWay BibleJob 8:11 KJV
Job · chapter 8 · verse 11
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?Job 8:11 · King James Version
Job 8:11 in context
9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- withoutbᵉlîyproperly, failureH1097 →
- rushgômeʼproperly, an absorbentH1573 →
- mirebitstsâha swampH1207 →
- flagʼâchûwa bulrush or any marshy grassH260 →
- growsâgâhto enlargeH7685 →
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Bildad here discourses very well on the sad catastrophe of hypocrites and evil-doers and the fatal period of all their hopes and joys. He will not be so bold as to say with Eliphaz that none that were righteous were ever cut off thus (Job 4:7);
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-19