Job 8:12
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
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- Jeremiah 17:6 For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.
- Psalm 129:6–7 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
- Matthew 13:20 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it;