Job 8:16

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Oft tymes a thinge doth florish, and men thynke that it maye abyde the Sonneshyne: it shuteth forth the braunches in his garden,

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  • Ps 80:11 : 11 She stretched out hir brauches vnto the see, & hir bowes vnto the water:
  • Jer 11:16 : 16 The LORDE called the a grene olyue tre, a fayre one, a frutefull one, a goodly one: but now that there is a contrary reporte off the abrode, he will burne the vp, ad destroye thy braunches.
  • Job 5:3 : 3 I haue sene my self, when the foolish was depe roted, that his bewty was sodely destroyed:
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 Wherfore do wicked me lyue in health and prosperite, come to their olde age, & increase in riches? 8 Their childers children lyue in their sight, & their generacion before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from all feare, for the rodd of God doth not smyte the. 10 Their bullocke gendreth, and that not out of tyme: their cow calueth, and is not vnfrutefull. 11 They sende forth their children by flockes, and their sonnes lede the daunce. 12 They beare with them tabrettes and harpes, and haue instrumentes of musick at their pleasure. 13 They spende their dayes in welthynesse: but sodenly they go downe to hell. 14 They saye vnto God: go from vs, we desyre not the knowlege of thy wayes. 15 What maner of felowe is the Allmightie, that we shulde serue him? What profit shulde we haue, to submitte oure selues vnto him?
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 Hope thou in the LORDE, & kepe his waye: & he shal so promote the, that thou shalt haue the lode by enheritauce, & se, when the vngodly shall perishe. 36 I myself haue sene the vngodly in greate power, & florishinge like a grene baye tre:
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 And why. I was greued at ye wicked, to se the vngodly in soch prosperite. 4 For they are in no parell of death, but stonde fast like a palace. 5 They come in no misfortune like other folke, nether are they plaged like other men. 6 And this is the cause that they be so puft vp in pryde, & ouerwhelmed with cruelte and vnrigthuousnesse. 7 Their eyes swell for fatnesse, they do euen what they lyst. 8 Corrupte are they, and speake blasphemies maliciously, proude and presumptuous are their wordes. 9 They stretch forth their mouth vnto the heauen, & their tonge goeth thorow the worlde. 10 Therfore fall the people vnto them, and there out sucke they no small auauntage. 11 Tush (saye they) how shulde God perceaue it? is there knowlege in the most hyest? 12 Lo, these are the vngodly, these prospere in the worlde, these haue riches in possession.

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  • Job 8:17
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    17it taketh many rotes, in so moch that it is like an house off stones.

  • Job 15:32-33
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    32He shall perish, afore his tyme be worne out, and his honde shal not be grene.

    33He shalbe pluckte of as an vntymely grape from ye vyne, and shal let his floure fall, as the olyue doth.

  • Job 8:12
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    12No: but (or euer it be shot forth, and or euer it be gathered) it wythereth, before eny other herbe.

  • Job 14:7-9
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    7Yf a tre be cutt downe, there is some hope yet, that it will sproute and shute forth the braunches againe:

    8For though a rote be waxen olde and deed in the grounde, yet whe the stocke

    9getteth the sent of water, it will budde, and brynge forth bowes, like as when it was first planted.

  • Job 18:16
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    16His rotes shalbe dryed vp beneth, & aboue shall his haruest be cut downe.

  • Job 8:15
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    15He leeneth him vpo his house, but he shal not stonde: he holdeth him fast by it, yet shal he not endure.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8For he shalbe as a tre, that is planted by the water syde: which spredeth out the rote vnto moystnesse, whom the heate can not harme, when it commeth, but his leaues are grene. And though there growe but litle frute because off drouth, yet is he not carefull, but he neuer leaueth of to bringe forth frute.

  • Ezek 17:5-6
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    5He toke also a braunch of the londe, and planted it in a frutefull grounde, he brought it vnto greate waters, & set it as a willye tre therby.

    6Then dyd it growe, and was a greate wyne stocke, but lowe by the grounde: thus there came of it a vyne, and it brought forth blossomes, & spred out braunches.

  • Ezek 31:4-9
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    4The waters made him greate, and the depe set him vp an hye. Roude aboute the rotes of him rane there floudes of water, he sent out his litle ryuers vnto all the trees of the felde.

    5Therfore was he hyer the all the trees of the felde, and thorow ye multitude of waters that he sent fro him, he optayned many and longe braunches.

    6All foules of the ayre made their nestes in his brauches, vnder his bowes gedred all the beastes of ye felde, & vnder his shadow dwelt all people.

    7Fayre and beutifull was he in his greatnesse, and in the length of his braunches, for his rote stode besyde greate waters:

    8no Cedre tre might hyde him. In the pleasaut garden of God, there was no Fyrre tre like his brauches, the playne trees were not like ye bowes of him. All the trees in the garden off God might not be copared vnto him in his beuty:

    9so fayre and goodly had I made him with the multitude of his braunches: In so moch, yt all the trees in the pleasaut garde of God, had envye at hi.

  • Hos 14:6-7
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    6His braunches shulde sprede out abrode, & be as fayre as the olyue tre, & smel as Libanus.

    7They that dwel vnder his shadowe, shulde come agayne, & growe vp as the corne, & florish as the vyne: he shulde haue as good a name, as the wyne of Libanus.

  • Ps 1:3
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    3Soch a ma is like a tre plated by ye watersyde, yt brigeth forth his frute in due season. His leeues shal not fall off, ad loke what soeuer he doth, it shal prospere.

  • Job 29:19
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    19For my rote was spred out by the waters syde, & the dew laye vpo my corne.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5But the frutes, were not yet ripe cut of, and the grapes were but yonge and grene. Then one smote of the grapes with an hoke, yee he hewed downe also the buwes and the braunches, & dyd cast the awaye.

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    8Neuertheles it was plated vpon a good grounde besyde greate waters: so that (by reason) it shulde haue brought out braunches and frute, and haue bene a goodly vyne.

    9Speake thou therfore, thus saieth the LORDE God: Shal this vyne prospere? shal not his rotes be pluckte out, his frute broken of, his grene braunches wythereed and fade awaye? yee without ether stronge arme or many people, shal it be plucked vp by the rotes.

    10Beholde, it was planted: shall it prospere therfore? Shall it not be dryed vp and withered, yee euen in the shutinge out of his blossomes, as soone as ye east wynde bloweth?

  • Ps 80:10-11
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    10The hilles were couered with the shadowe of it, & so were the stronge Cedretrees wt the bowes therof.

    11She stretched out hir brauches vnto the see, & hir bowes vnto the water:

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    16The trees of the LORDE are full of sappe, euen the trees of Libanus which he hath planted.

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    14Morouer, he goeth out to hewe downe Cedre trees: He bringeth home Elmes and okes, and other tymbre of the wodd. Or els the Fyrre trees which he planted himself, ad soch as the rayne hath swelled,

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    2He cometh vp, and falleth awaye like a floure. He flyeth as it were a shadowe, and neuer continueth in one state.

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    14Soch as be planted in the house of the LORDE,be frutefull, plenteous & grene.

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    22hyde him with their shadowe, and the wylowes of the broke couer him rounde aboute.

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    35Hope thou in the LORDE, & kepe his waye: & he shal so promote the, that thou shalt haue the lode by enheritauce, & se, when the vngodly shall perishe.

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    30ye shalbe as an oke whose leaues are fallen awaye, and as a garden that hath no moystnesse.

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    6It wil come to this poynte, yt Iacob shalbe rooted againe, and Israel shalbe grene & beare floures, & they shal fyll ye whole worlde wt their frute.

  • Ezek 19:11
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    11hir stalkes were so stronge, that men might haue made staues therof for officers: she grew so hie in hir stalkes. So when men sawe that she exceaded ye heith and multitude of hir braunches,

  • Isa 17:11
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    11In the daye when thou diddest plante it, it was greate, and gaue soone the frute of thi sede: But in the daye of haruest, thou shalt reape an heape of sorowes & miseries.

  • Dan 4:11
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    11which was very hye, greate and mightie: ye heyth reached vnto the heaue, and the bredth extended to all the endes of the earth:

  • Joel 1:7
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    7They shal make my vinyarde waist, they shal pyll of the barckes of my fygetrees, strype them bare, cast them awaye, and make the braunches whyte.

  • Jer 11:16
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  • Job 15:30
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    30He shal neuer come out of darcknesse, the flame shal drye vp his braunches, with ye blast of the mouth of God shal he be take awaie.

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    15Manteyne it, that thy right hode hath plated, & the sonne whom thou maydest so moch of for thy self.

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  • Num 24:6
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    6Euen as the brode valleys, as the gardens by the waters syde, as ye tentes which the LORDE hath plated, & as the Ceder trees vpon ye water.

  • Song 1:17
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    17ye sylinges of oure house are of Cedre tre, & oure balkes of Cypresse.

  • Dan 4:15
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    15Neuertheles leaue the grounde of his rote still in the earth, and bynde him vpon the playne felde, with cheynes of yron and stele. With the dew of heauen shall he be wet, and he shall haue his parte in the herbes of the grounde with other wylde beastes.