Job 8:16

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

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  • Ps 80:11 : 11 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.
  • Jer 11:16 : 16 The LORD once called you a thriving olive tree, beautiful with luscious fruit. But with the sound of a great uproar, he has set it on fire, and its branches are broken.
  • Job 5:3 : 3 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his home.
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 Why do the wicked live on, grow old, and increase in power? 8 Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their homes are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them. 10 Their bulls breed without failure; their cows give birth and do not miscarry. 11 They release their young like a flock, and their children skip about. 12 They sing to the tambourine and lyre and rejoice to the sound of the flute. 13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol. 14 Yet they say to God, 'Depart from us! We have no desire to know your ways.' 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we profit if we entreat him?
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree. 36 Yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched for him, he could not be found.
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong. 5 They are free from common human burdens; they are not plagued by human ills. 6 Therefore, pride is their necklace; violence clothes them like a garment. 7 Their eyes bulge from fatness; their imaginations overflow with malice. 8 They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance, they threaten oppression. 9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut through the earth. 10 Therefore His people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance. 11 They say, 'How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?' 12 Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree, they increase in wealth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

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

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

  • Job 14:7-9
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    7 At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not fail.

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

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

  • Job 18:16
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    16 His roots below will dry up, and his branches above will wither.

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

  • Jer 17:8
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    8 They 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.

  • Ezek 17:5-6
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    5 Then it took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil, placing it by abundant waters like a willow.

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  • Ezek 31:4-9
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    4 The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, sending its rivers around its planting place, and they watered all the trees of the field.

    5 So it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long because of the abundance of water as it sent them out.

    6 All the birds of the sky nested in its branches, every beast of the field gave birth under its boughs, and all the great nations lived in its shade.

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    6 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

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

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    5 For 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.

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    8 It was planted in fertile soil by abundant waters to produce branches, bear fruit, and become a splendid vine.

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    35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree.

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    11 Its branches were strong, fit for rulers' scepters. It towered high; its height was noticeable among the branches, in the lushness of its abundance.

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    11 Though on the day you plant them you make them grow, and in the morning you make your seed blossom, yet the harvest will be a heap on the day of grief and incurable pain.

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    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.

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