Job 8:11
Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?
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- Exod 2:3 : 3 And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.
- Isa 19:5-7 : 5 And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste: 6 And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing. 7 The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.
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8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;
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8 He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.
9 Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?
10 And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?
11 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
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26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
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4 And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.
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30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.
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8 For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.
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25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
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6 And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.
7 The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.
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4 It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field.
5 In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters.
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16 He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.
17 His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.
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11 Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water?
12 Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?
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11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.
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14 In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.
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11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;
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24 They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.
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19 My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,
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22 Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?
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7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.
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2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
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16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.
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6 They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.
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11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
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6 And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.
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6 The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.
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9 Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
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7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.
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7 And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.
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3 He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
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11 It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
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6 And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water.
7 And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth.
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7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
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7 So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters.
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4 Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.