OLD TESTAMENT

Job 8:11

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“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

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Verse 11. Sedge-bush, or flag. Hebrew achu; so called, because from one root many brothers (as it were) spring. Septuagint style it Βουτομον, as it was usually “cut for oxen.” Genesis 41:2. Parkhurst. Bible.—As plants die without suction, so do those who depart from God. Menochius.

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