Job 8:17

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

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  • Job 18:16 : 16 His roots below will dry up, and his branches above will wither.
  • Job 29:19 : 19 My roots spread out to the waters, and the dew stayed overnight on my branches.
  • 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.
  • Isa 40:24 : 24 No 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.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring my case to you. Yet I want to discuss your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those who betray others at ease? 2 You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are near to their lips but far from their hearts.
  • Mark 11:20 : 20 Early in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from its roots.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These are hidden reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you fearlessly, shepherding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted.

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  • Job 8:15-16
    2 verses
    85%

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

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

  • Job 8:18-19
    2 verses
    82%

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

    19 Surely this is the joy of their way, and out of the dust, others will spring up.

  • Job 18:16-17
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    79%

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

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

  • Job 14:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Jer 17:8
    75%

    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 17:5-10
    6 verses
    74%

    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.

    6 The 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.

    7 But there was another great eagle with powerful wings and abundant feathers. And behold, the vine bent its roots toward it and stretched its branches toward the eagle to be watered from the surrounding garden.

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

    9 Say, ‘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.

    10 Even 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?’

  • Job 28:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 Man lays his hand on the hardest rock and overturns mountains from their roots.

    10 He carves out channels through the rocks, and his eyes see every precious thing.

  • Job 8:12
    74%

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

  • Job 29:19
    74%

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

  • Ezek 31:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7 It was majestic in its size, with long branches, because its roots reached abundant waters.

    8 The cedars in God's garden could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare to its branches, and the plane trees were not like its boughs. No tree in the garden of God was equal to it in beauty.

    9 I made it beautiful with its many branches, and all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, envied it.

  • Dan 4:14-15
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    71%

    14 This 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.

    15 This 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.

  • Job 40:21-22
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    21 Under the lotus trees he lies down, hidden among the reeds and marshes.

    22 The lotus trees conceal him in their shade; the willows of the brook surround him.

  • Ps 80:9-11
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    71%

    9 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.

    10 You cleared the ground for it; it took root and filled the land.

    11 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.

  • Ezek 31:14
    71%

    14 This 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.

  • Dan 4:11
    71%

    11 He called out loudly and said: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches.

  • Job 15:32-33
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Ezek 31:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 37:35
    70%

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

  • Job 14:18
    70%

    18 But as a mountain crumbles and falls and a rock is displaced from its place,

  • Job 31:8
    70%

    8 then may I sow, but another eat, and may my offspring be uprooted.

  • Joel 1:7
    70%

    7 It 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.

  • Job 5:3
    70%

    3 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his home.

  • Isa 17:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, you will plant pleasant plants and set them with imported vines.

    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.

  • Job 24:18
    70%

    18 Swift upon the surface of the waters they are; their portion is cursed in the land; they do not turn to the way of the vineyards.

  • Isa 18:5
    69%

    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.

  • Isa 44:14
    69%

    14 He cuts down cedars or chooses a cypress or an oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a pine, and the rain makes it grow.

  • Ps 80:15
    69%

    15 God of Hosts, return! Look down from heaven and see; take care of this vine.

  • Ezek 19:11
    69%

    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.

  • Job 19:10
    69%

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

  • Ps 141:7
    69%

    7 As one plows the earth and breaks it apart, so are our bones scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

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