Job 18:16

King James Version 1611 (Original)

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 9:16 : 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
  • Amos 2:9 : 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
  • Job 15:30 : 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Job 29:19 : 19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
  • Job 5:3-4 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 18:17-19
    3 verses
    86%

    17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

    18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

    19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

  • Job 15:29-30
    2 verses
    83%

    29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

    30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

  • Job 15:32-33
    2 verses
    82%

    32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

    33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

  • Job 18:14-15
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    81%

    14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

    15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

  • Job 14:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

    7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

    8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

    9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

  • Job 8:15-18
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    79%

    15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

    16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

    17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

    18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

  • Ezek 17:9-10
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    78%

    9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

    10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

  • 16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

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    11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

    12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

    13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

    14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

  • Job 18:5-7
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    77%

    5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

    7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • 5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

  • 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

  • 12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

  • 24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

  • 5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

  • Dan 4:14-15
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    76%

    14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:

    15 Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:

  • 22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

  • 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  • 10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

  • 13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

  • 6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

  • 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

  • Job 20:26-27
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    74%

    26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

    27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

  • 7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

  • 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

  • 9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

  • 6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

  • 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

  • 14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

  • 15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

  • 19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.