before it be # 12_2KI_19_26 # Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the house tops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up. 
before it be # 23_ISA_37_27 # Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up. 
before it be # 20_PRO_17_14 # The beginning of strife [is as] when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.