While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
KJV
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
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Whilst it is yet in its greenness,.... Before it is come to its full height, or to a proper ripeness; when as yet it has not flowered, or is about it; before the time usual for it to turn and change; it being without moisture, water, or watery clay, will change:
and not cut down; by the scythe, or cropped by the hand of man:
it withereth before any other herb; of itself; rather sooner than such that do not require so much moisture; or in the sight and presence of them, they looking on as it were, and deriding it; a poetical representation, as Schultens observes: next follows the accommodation of these similes to wicked and hypocritical men.
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