Job 8:16

Bishops' Bible (1568)

It is a greene tree before the sunne, & shooteth foorth the braunches ouer his garden.

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  • Ps 80:11 : 11 She stretched out her braunches vnto the sea: and her bowes vnto the riuer.
  • Jer 11:16 : 16 The Lord called thee a greene oliue tree, a faire one, a fruitefull one, a goodlye one: but with great clamour hath the enemie set fire vpon it, & the braunches of it are destroyed.
  • Job 5:3 : 3 I haue seene my selfe when the foolish was deepe rooted, and sodenly I cursed his habitation.
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 Wherefore do wicked men liue, come to their olde age, and increase in richesse? 8 Their children lyue in their sight, and their generation before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from all feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them. 10 Their bullocke gendreth and that not out of time, their cowe calueth and is not vnfruitfull. 11 They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes leade the daunce. 12 They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs. 13 They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue. 14 They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. 15 Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him?
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I my selfe haue seene the vngodly in great power: and florishing lyke a greene bay tree. 36 And he vanished away, so that he could be no more seene: I sought hym, but he coulde no where be founde.
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 For I enuied at the case of the foolishe: I sawe the wicked flowe in all kynde of prosperitie. 4 For there be no bondes of death that can holde them: and the galaries of their houses be strong. 5 They come in no misfortune lyke other folke: neither are they plagued lyke other men. 6 And this is the cause that pride compasse them rounde about: and crueltie couereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: and the cogitations of their heartes do passe from them. 8 They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously. 9 For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde. 10 Therfore God his people turneth thither: and there is drawen vnto them waters in a full cuppe. 11 And they say, howe shoulde God perceaue it? is there knowledge in the most hyghest? 12 Lo these vngodly and fortunate in the worlde: do possesse riches.

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  • Job 8:17
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    17The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountayne, and are folden about the house of stones.

  • Job 15:32-33
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    80%

    32He shal perishe afore his time be worne out, and his braunche shall not be greene.

    33He shalbe plucked of as an vntimely grape from the vine, and shall let his floure fall as the oliue doth.

  • Job 8:12
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    12No, but whilste it is nowe in his greennesse, though it be not cut downe, yet withereth it before any other hearbe:

  • Job 14:7-9
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    7For if a tree be cut downe, there is some hope yet that it wyll sproute and shoote foorth the braunches againe.

    8Though the roote of it be waxen olde, and the stocke thereof be dead in the grounde:

    9Yet when it getteth the sent of water, it wyll budde and bring foorth bowes, lyke as a tree that is planted.

  • Job 18:16
    79%

    16His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his braunche be cut downe.

  • Job 8:15
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    15He shal leane vpon his house, but it shal not stande: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8For he shalbe as a tree that is planted by the water side, which spreadeth out the roote vnto moystnesse, whom the heate can not harme when it commeth, but his leafe shalbe greene: And though there growe but litle fruite because of drouth, yet is he not carefull, but he neuer leaueth of to bryng foorth fruite.

  • Ezek 17:5-6
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    5He toke also of the seede of the land, and planted it in a fruiteful grounde, he brought it vnto great waters, and set it in an open trenche.

    6Then did it grow, and was a spreading vine, but lowe of stature, whose braunches turned towarde it, and the rootes of it were vnder it: thus there came of it a vine, and it brought foorth braunches, and shot foorth buddes.

  • Ezek 31:4-9
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    4The waters made him great, and the deepe set him vp on hye, with her riuers running rounde about his plantes, and sent out her litle riuers vnto all the trees of the fielde.

    5Therefore was he higher then all the trees of the fielde, and his bowes were multiplied, & his braunches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out.

    6Al foules of the aire made their nestes in his braunches, vnder his bowes did all the beastes of the fielde bring foorth their young, and vnder his shadowe dwelt all mightie nations.

    7Beautiful was he in his greatnesse, and in the length of his braunches: for his roote stoode beside great waters.

    8No Cedar tree might hyde hym in the garden of God, there was no fyrre trees like his braunches, the chestnut trees were not like the bowes of him: all the trees in the garden of God, might not be compared vnto him in his beautie.

    9I made him faire with the multitude of his braunches: insomuch that all the trees in the pleasaunt garden of God had enuie at hym.

  • Hos 14:6-7
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    76%

    6His braunches shal spreade out abrode, and be as faire as the oliue tree, & smell as Libanus.

    7They that dwell vnder his shadowe, shall returne & growe vp as the corne, and florishe as the vine: he shall haue as good a name as the wine of Libanus.

  • Ps 1:3
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    3And he shalbe lyke a tree planted by the waters syde, that bryngeth foorth her fruite in due season: and whose leafe wythereth not, for whatsoeuer he doth it shall prosper.

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    19For my roote was spread out by the waterside: and the deawe lay vpon my corne.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For afore the haruest whe the braunch is growen, there shall come ripe fruite of the floure: and he shal cut downe the increase with sithes, and the braunches shall he take away with hookes.

  • Ezek 17:8-10
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    8It was planted vpon a good soyle beside great waters, so that it should haue brought out braunches, & borne fruite, and haue ben a goodly vine.

    9Speake thou therfore, thus saith the Lorde God: Shall this vine prosper? shall he not pull vp the rootes therof, and destroy the fruite thereof, and cause them to dry? all the leaues of her bud shall wither without great power, or many people, to plucke it vp by the rootes thereof.

    10Behold, it was planted: Shall it prosper therfore? Shall it not be dryed vp and withered? when the east winde shall touche it, it shall wither in the trenches where it grewe.

  • Ps 80:10-11
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    73%

    10The hilles were couered with her shadowe: and goodly high Cedar trees with her bowes.

    11She stretched out her braunches vnto the sea: and her bowes vnto the riuer.

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    16The trees of God be satisfied: euen the Cedars of Libanus which he hath planted.

  • Isa 44:14
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    14Moreouer, he goeth out to hewe Cedar trees, he bringeth home Elmes and Okes, and taking a bolde courage, he seeketh out the best timber of the wood: he him selfe hath planted a Pine tree, whiche the rayne hath swelled,

  • Job 14:2
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    2He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.

  • Ps 92:14
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    14They shall styll bryng foorth fruite in their age: they shalbe fat and florishyng.

  • Job 40:22
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    22The trees couer him with their shadowe, and the wyllowes of the brooke compasse him about.

  • Ps 37:35
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    35I my selfe haue seene the vngodly in great power: and florishing lyke a greene bay tree.

  • Isa 1:30
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    30For ye shalbe as a tree whose leaues are fallen away, and as a garden that hath no moystnesse.

  • Isa 27:6
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    6The dayes are comming that Iacob shall take roote, Israel shalbe greene and florishe, and the world shalbe filled with fruite.

  • Ezek 19:11
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    11And she had strong roddes for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted on hye among the braunches, & she appeared in her height with the multitude of her braunches.

  • Isa 17:11
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    11In that day shalt thou make thy plant to growe, and early in the mornyng shalt thou make thy seede to florishe: The haruest shalbe gone in the day of inheritaunce, and there shalbe sorowe without hope of comfort.

  • Dan 4:11
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    11A great tree and strong, and the heyght therof reached vnto the heauen, and the sight thereof to the endes of all the earth.

  • Joel 1:7
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    7He hath destroyed my vine, & barked my figge tree, he hath pilled it and cast it from him, and hath left bowes therof whyte.

  • Jer 11:16
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    16The Lord called thee a greene oliue tree, a faire one, a fruitefull one, a goodlye one: but with great clamour hath the enemie set fire vpon it, & the braunches of it are destroyed.

  • Job 15:30
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    30He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse, the flame shal drye vp his branches, with the blast of ye mouth of God shall he be taken away.

  • Job 8:19
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    19Behold it will reioyce by this meanes, if it may growe in another mould.

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    14So that none of all the trees by the waters shalbe exalted in their heyght, nor shoot vp their toppes among the thycke bowes, neither shall their trees stande in their heyght, as many of them as drinke water: for they are all deliuered vnto death in the neather partes of the earth, in the mids of the children of men among them that go downe to the pit.

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    6In the mornyng it florisheth and groweth vp: in the euenyng it is cut downe and wythered.

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    1And there shall come a sprig foorth of the stemne of Esai, and a young shoote shall growe out of his roote.

  • Num 24:6
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    6Euen as the valleys are they layde abrode, & as gardens by the riuers side, as the tentes whiche the Lorde hath pitched, and as cypres trees beside the waters.

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    17the seelinges of our house are of Cedar tree, and our crosse ioyntes of Cipresse.

  • Dan 4:15
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    15Neuerthelesse, leaue the stumpe of his rootes still in the earth, and with a band of iron and brasse binde it among the grasse of the fielde, & let it be wet with the deawe of heauen, and let his portion be with the beastes among the grasse of the fielde.