Job 8:12

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

Not cut down. Ere it has ripened for the scythe, it withers more suddenly than any herb, having no self-sustaining power, once that the moisture is gone, which other herbs do not need in the same degree. So ruin seizes on the godless in the zenith of prosperity, more suddenly than on others who appear less firmly seated in their possessions (Umbreit). "The wicked shall see it, and he grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish" (Psalms 112:10).