Job 8:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.

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  • Ps 80:11 : 11 Shee stretched out her branches vnto the Sea, and her boughes vnto the Riuer.
  • Jer 11:16 : 16 The Lord called thy name, A greene oliue tree, faire, and of goodly fruite: but with noyse and great tumult he hath set fyre vpon it, and the branches of it are broken.
  • Job 5:3 : 3 I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth? 8 Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes. 9 Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them. 10 Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe. 11 They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance. 12 They take the tabret & harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs. 13 They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue. 14 They say also vnto God, Depart fro vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. 15 Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I haue seene the wicked strong, and spreading himselfe like a greene bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and loe, he was gone, and I sought him, but he could not be founde.
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked. 4 For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong. 5 They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men. 6 Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish. 8 They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously. 9 They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth. 10 Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. 11 And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High? 12 Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.

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  • 17 The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.

  • Job 15:32-33
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    32 His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.

    33 God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.

  • 12 Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.

  • Job 14:7-9
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    7 For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.

    8 Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, & the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,

    9 Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes like a plant.

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

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

  • 8 For he shall be as a tree that is planted by the water, which spreadeth out her rootes by the riuer, and shall not feele when the heate commeth, but her leafe shall be greene, and shall not care for the yeere of drought, neyther shall cease from yeelding fruit.

  • Ezek 17:5-6
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    5 Hee tooke also of the seede of the lande, and planted it in a fruitfull ground: hee placed it by great waters, and set it as a willowe tree.

    6 And it budded vp, and was like a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward it, and the rootes thereof were vnder it: so it became a vine, and it brought foorth branches, and shot foorth buds.

  • Ezek 31:4-9
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    4 The waters nourished him, and the deepe exalted him on hie with her riuers running round about his plants, and sent out her litle riuers vnto all the trees of the fielde.

    5 Therefore his height was exalted aboue all the trees of the fielde, and his boughes were multiplied, and his branches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out.

    6 All the foules of the heauen made their nestes in his boughes, and vnder his branches did all the beastes of the fielde bring foorth their yong, and vnder his shadowe dwelt all mightie nations.

    7 Thus was he faire in his greatnesse, and in the length of his branches: for his roote was neere great waters.

    8 The cedars in the garden of God coulde not hide him: no firre tree was like his branches, and the chessenut trees were not like his boughes: all the trees in the garden of God were not like vnto him in his beautie.

    9 I made him faire by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enuied him.

  • Hos 14:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 (14:7) His branches shall spread, and his beautie shalbe as the oliue tree, and his smel as Lebanon.

    7 (14:8) They that dwel vnder his shadow, shal returne: they shall reuiue as the corne, and florish as the vine: the sent thereof shalbe as the wine of Lebanon.

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    3 For he shall be like a tree planted by the riuers of waters, that will bring foorth her fruite in due season: whose leafe shall not fade: so whatsoeuer he shall doe, shall prosper.

  • 19 For my roote is spread out by the water, and the dewe shall lye vpon my branche.

  • 5 For afore the haruest when the floure is finished, and the fruite is riping in the floure, then he shall cut downe the branches with hookes, and shall take away, and cut off the boughes:

  • Ezek 17:8-10
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    73%

    8 It was planted in a good soyle by great waters, that it should bring forth branches, and beare fruite, and be an excellent vine.

    9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, Shall it prosper? shall he not pull vp the rootes thereof, and destroy the fruite thereof, and cause them to drie? all the leaues of her bud shall wither without great power, or many people, to plucke it vp by the rootes thereof.

    10 Beholde, it was planted: but shal it prosper? shall it not be dried vp, and wither? when the East winde shall touch it, it shall wither in the trenches, where it grewe.

  • Ps 80:10-11
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    73%

    10 The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.

    11 Shee stretched out her branches vnto the Sea, and her boughes vnto the Riuer.

  • 16 The high trees are satisfied, euen the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted,

  • 14 He will hewe him downe cedars, and take the pine tree and the oke, and taketh courage among the trees of the forest: he planteth a firre tree, and the raine doeth nourish it.

  • 2 He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.

  • 14 They shall still bring foorth fruite in their age: they shall be fat and flourishing,

  • 22 (40:17) Can the trees couer him with their shadow? or can the willowes of the riuer compasse him about?

  • 35 I haue seene the wicked strong, and spreading himselfe like a greene bay tree.

  • 30 For ye shalbe as an oke, whose leafe fadeth: and as a garden that hath no water.

  • 6 Hereafter, Iaakob shall take roote: Israel shall florish and growe, and the world shall be filled with fruite.

  • 11 And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

  • 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to growe, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seede to florish: but the haruest shall be gone in the day of possession, and there shalbe desperate sorrowe.

  • 11 (4:8) A great tree and strong, and the height thereof reached vnto heauen, and the sight thereof to the endes of all the earth.

  • 7 He maketh my vine waste, & pilleth off the barke of my figge tree: he maketh it bare, and casteth it downe: ye branches therof are made white.

  • 16 The Lord called thy name, A greene oliue tree, faire, and of goodly fruite: but with noyse and great tumult he hath set fyre vpon it, and the branches of it are broken.

  • 30 He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.

  • 19 Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.

  • 14 So that none of all the trees by the waters shalbe exalted by their height, neither shall shoote vp their toppe among the thicke boughes, neither shall their leaues stand vp in their height, which drinke so much water: for they are all deliuered vnto death in the nether partes of the earth in the middes of the children of men among them that goe downe to the pit.

  • 6 In the morning it florisheth and groweth, but in the euening it is cut downe and withereth.

  • 15 And the vineyard, that thy right hand hath planted, and the young vine, which thou madest strong for thy selfe.

  • 1 Bvt there shall come a rodde foorth of the stocke of Ishai, and a grasse shall growe out of his rootes.

  • 6 As the valleis, are they stretched forth, as gardes by the riuers side, as the aloe trees, which the Lorde hath planted, as the cedars beside the waters.

  • 17 The beames of our house are cedars, our rafters are of firre.

  • 15 (4:12) Neuerthelesse leaue the stumpe of his rootes in the earth, and with a band of yron and brasse binde it among the grasse of the fielde, and let it be wet with the dewe of heauen, and let his portion be with the beastes among the grasse of the fielde.