Job 8:11
Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
In Context
10And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
12When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
Cross References
Isaiah 19:5And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:9-20
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:… Read the whole commentary →