Job 18:16

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His roots below will dry up, and his branches above will wither.

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  • Hos 9:16 : 16 Ephraim is struck down; their root is dried up; they will bear no fruit. Even if they give birth, I will kill their cherished offspring.
  • Amos 2:9 : 9 'Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites before them, whose height was like the cedars and whose strength was like the oaks. I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below.'
  • Job 15:30 : 30 He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his branch, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.
  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble and as dry grass sinks in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Job 29:19 : 19 My roots spread out to the waters, and the dew stayed overnight on my branches.
  • Job 5:3-4 : 3 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his home. 4 His children are far from safety; they are crushed at the gate with no one to deliver them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 18:17-19
    3 verses
    86%

    17His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the public square.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

    19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, nor any survivor where he once lived.

  • Job 15:29-30
    2 verses
    83%

    29He will no longer be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread out across the land.

    30He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his branch, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.

  • Job 15:32-33
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    82%

    32It will be fulfilled before his time, and his branch will not remain green.

    33He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine and cast away his blossoms like the olive tree.

  • Job 18:14-15
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    81%

    14He is uprooted from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

    15What does not belong to him will dwell in his tent; burning sulfur will be scattered over his dwelling.

  • Job 14:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

    7At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not fail.

    8Even if its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

    9at the scent of water it will bud and produce branches like a young plant.

  • Job 8:15-18
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    79%

    15They lean on their house, but it does not stand; they grasp it, but it does not hold firm.

    16They are green before the sun, and their shoots spread out over the garden.

    17Their roots are entwined around a heap of rocks; they look for a home among the stones.

    18But if they are uprooted from their place, that place will deny them, saying, 'I never saw you.'

  • Ezek 17:9-10
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    78%

    9Say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and its fruit stripped so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a great effort or many people to pull it out by its roots.

    10Even if transplanted, will it thrive? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes it, drying up in the very garden bed where it grew?’

  • Ps 80:16
    78%

    16The root your right hand has planted, the son you have raised up for yourself.

  • Ezek 31:11-14
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    78%

    11I handed it over to a mighty ruler among the nations; he dealt with it according to its wickedness. I drove it out.

    12Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, cut it down and abandoned it. Its branches fell on the mountains and in all the valleys; its boughs were broken in all the ravines of the earth, and all the nations of the earth left its shade.

    13All the birds of the sky rested on its fallen trunk, and all the wild animals were among its branches.

    14This happened so that no trees beside the abundant waters may grow tall enough to reach the clouds, nor lift their tops among the thick branches, and no trees that drink water will stand before them in their height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the lower earth, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.

  • Job 18:5-7
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    5Indeed, the light of the wicked will be extinguished, and the flame of his fire will not shine.

    6The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

    7His vigorous steps will be restricted, and his own counsel will cast him down.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, the branches will be cut with pruning knives, and the spreading branches will be removed and discarded.

  • Job 8:12
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    12While still in their greenness and not cut down, they wither more quickly than any grass.

  • Ezek 19:12
    77%

    12But it was uprooted in fury, cast to the ground. The east wind dried out its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and dried up, consumed by fire.

  • Isa 40:24
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    24No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

  • Ps 52:5
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    5You love evil more than good, and falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.

  • Job 24:20
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    20The womb forgets them; worms feast upon them; they are no longer remembered. Wickedness is broken like a tree.

  • Dan 4:14-15
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    14This decision is by the decree of the watchers and the sentence by the command of the holy ones, in order that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men, and He gives them to whomever He will and sets the lowliest of men over them.

    15This is the dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now you, Belteshazzar, explain its meaning, because none of the wise men in my kingdom can interpret it for me. But you are able because the spirit of the holy gods is in you.

  • Prov 2:22
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    22But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

  • Jer 17:8
    76%

    8They will be like a tree planted by water, stretching out its roots by a stream. It will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves remain green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease to produce fruit.

  • Ps 21:10
    75%

    10You will make them like a fiery furnace in the time of Your presence; the LORD will swallow them in His anger, and fire will consume them.

  • Ps 109:13
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    13May his descendants be cut off, and may their name be wiped out in the next generation.

  • Hos 11:6
    75%

    6A sword will whirl through their cities; it will destroy their gates and consume them because of their plans.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Like a slug that melts away as it moves, like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.

  • Job 20:26-27
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    74%

    26Total darkness is hidden for his treasures; a fire not kindled by man will consume him and devour what remains in his tent.

    27The heavens will expose his guilt, and the earth will rise up against him.

  • Joel 1:7
    74%

    7It has laid waste my vine and ruined my fig tree. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away; their branches are made white.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6They will be like a shrub in the desert, dwelling in a parched place in the wilderness, in a land of salt where no one lives, and will not see when prosperity comes.

  • Isa 17:9
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    9In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the wooded heights and hilltops that were abandoned because of the Israelites, and there will be desolation.

  • Ezek 17:6
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    6The plant sprouted and became a low, spreading vine, with its branches facing the eagle and its roots growing beneath it. So it became a vine, produced branches, and sent out leaves.

  • Job 19:10
    74%

    10He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

  • Ezek 19:14
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    14Fire went out from its branch, consuming its fruit. There was no strong rod left in it, no scepter fit to rule. This is a lamentation, and it has become a lamentation.

  • Hos 13:15
    74%

    15Even though he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind of the LORD, rising from the wilderness. His spring will dry up, his fountain will be parched. It will plunder his treasury of every precious thing.

  • Job 29:19
    74%

    19My roots spread out to the waters, and the dew stayed overnight on my branches.