Job 18:16

American Standard Version (1901)

His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 9:16 : 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
  • Amos 2:9 : 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
  • Job 15:30 : 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.
  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Job 29:19 : 19 My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;
  • Job 5:3-4 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:

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  • Job 18:17-19
    3 verses
    86%

    17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

    19He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

  • Job 15:29-30
    2 verses
    83%

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.

  • Job 15:32-33
    2 verses
    82%

    32It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.

    33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.

  • Job 18:14-15
    2 verses
    81%

    14He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

    15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

  • Job 14:7-9
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    79%

    7For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

    8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground;

    9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.

  • Job 8:15-18
    4 verses
    79%

    15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

    16He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.

    17His roots are wrapped about the [stone] -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.

    18If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.

  • Ezek 17:9-10
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    78%

    9Say thou, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the roots thereof.

    10Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.

  • Ps 80:16
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    16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

  • Ezek 31:11-14
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    78%

    11I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

    12And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

    13Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches;

    14to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

  • Job 18:5-7
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    77%

    5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

    7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.

  • Job 8:12
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    12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withereth before any [other] herb.

  • Ezek 19:12
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    12But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.

  • Isa 40:24
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    24Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

  • Ps 52:5
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    5God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. {{Selah

  • Job 24:20
    76%

    20The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

  • Dan 4:14-15
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    14He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

    15Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven: and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:

  • Prov 2:22
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    22But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

  • Jer 17:8
    76%

    8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  • Ps 21:10
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    10Their fruit wilt thou destroy from the earth, And their seed from among the children of men.

  • Ps 109:13
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    13Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

  • Hos 11:6
    75%

    6And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

  • Job 20:26-27
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    74%

    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.

  • Joel 1:7
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    7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Isa 17:9
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    9In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.

  • Ezek 17:6
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    6And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

  • Job 19:10
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    10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

  • Ezek 19:14
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    14And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

  • Hos 13:15
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    15Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the breath of Jehovah coming up from the wilderness; and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: [ he shall make spoil of the treasure of all goodly vessels.

  • Job 29:19
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    19My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;