Job 8:17

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:16 : 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.
  • Job 29:19 : 19 My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;
  • 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.
  • Isa 40:24 : 24 Yea, 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.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously? 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
  • Mark 11:20 : 20 And as they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 8:15-16
    2 verses
    85%

    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.

  • Job 8:18-19
    2 verses
    82%

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

    19Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring.

  • Job 18:16-17
    2 verses
    79%

    16His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

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

  • Job 14:7-9
    3 verses
    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.

  • Jer 17:8
    75%

    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.

  • Ezek 17:5-10
    6 verses
    74%

    5He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow-tree.

    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.

    7There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.

    8It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

    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.

  • Job 28:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

    10He cutteth out channels among the rocks; And his eye seeth every precious thing.

  • Job 8:12
    74%

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

  • Job 29:19
    74%

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

  • Ezek 31:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

    8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.

    9I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

  • Dan 4:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    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:

  • Job 40:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21He lieth under the lotus-trees, In the covert of the reed, and the fen.

    22The lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook compass him about.

  • Ps 80:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9Thou preparedst [room] before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.

    10The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God.

    11It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River.

  • Ezek 31:14
    71%

    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.

  • Dan 4:11
    71%

    11The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.

  • Job 15:32-33
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Ezek 31:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels unto all the trees of the field.

    5Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.

  • Ps 37:35
    70%

    35I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

  • Job 14:18
    70%

    18But the mountain falling cometh to nought; And the rock is removed out of its place;

  • Job 31:8
    70%

    8Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

  • Joel 1:7
    70%

    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.

  • Job 5:3
    70%

    3I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

  • Isa 17:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips.

    11In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

  • Job 24:18
    70%

    18Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

  • Isa 18:5
    69%

    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.

  • Isa 44:14
    69%

    14He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the holm-tree and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourish it.

  • Ps 80:15
    69%

    15And the stock which thy right hand planted, And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

  • Ezek 19:11
    69%

    11And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in [ their height with the multitude of their branches.

  • Job 19:10
    69%

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

  • Ps 141:7
    69%

    7As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.