Job 8:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 80:11 : 11 It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its branches unto the river.
  • Jer 11:16 : 16 The LORD called your name, A green olive tree, lovely and of good fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and its branches are broken.
  • Job 5:3 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, grow mighty in power? 8 Their descendants are established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, nor is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull breeds and does not fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry. 11 They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice to the sound of the flute. 13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to the grave. 14 Therefore they say to God, 'Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.' 15 Who is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and indeed, he was no more; yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no pains in their death; but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment. 7 Their eyes bulge with abundance; they have more than heart could wish. 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly of oppression; they speak loftily. 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth. 10 Therefore his people return here, and waters of a full cup are drained by them. 11 And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High? 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

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    17 His roots are wrapped around the heap, and sees the place of stones.

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    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 cast off his flower as the olive.

  • Job 8:12
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    12 While it is still green and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

  • Job 14:7-9
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    7 For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease.

    8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;

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

  • Job 18:16
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    16 His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off.

  • Job 8:15
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    15 He shall lean on his house, but it will not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it will not endure.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be anxious in the year of drought, nor cease from yielding fruit.

  • Ezek 17:5-6
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    5 He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in a fertile field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

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

  • Ezek 31:4-9
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    4 The waters made it great, the deep set it up on high with its rivers running around its plants, and sent out its little rivers to all the trees of the field.

    5 Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long because of the multitude of waters as it spread out.

    6 All the birds of heaven made their nests in its boughs, and under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow all great nations dwelt.

    7 Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was by great waters.

    8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like its branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

    9 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

  • Hos 14:6-7
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    6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his fragrance as Lebanon.

    7 Those who dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the grain, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

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    3 He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper.

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    19 My root spread out to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5 For before 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.

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    8 It was planted in good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches and bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

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

    10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

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    10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and its boughs were like the majestic cedars.

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    14 He cuts down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the rain nourishes it.

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    2 He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.

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    14 They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and flourishing,

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    22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook surround him.

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    35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

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    30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

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    6 Those who come from Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

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    11 And she had strong rods for scepters of those who bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

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    11 In the day you shall make your plant to grow, and in the morning you shall make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

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    11 The tree grew and was strong, and its height reached unto heaven, and its sight to the end of all the earth.

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    7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree: he has made it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.

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    16 The LORD called your name, A green olive tree, lovely and of good fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and its branches are broken.

  • Job 15:30
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    30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall go away.

  • Job 8:19
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    19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall grow.

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    14 So that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, nor set their top among the thick boughs, nor any tree stand up to its height, all that drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

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    6 In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

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    15 And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.

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  • Num 24:6
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    6 Like valleys they spread out, like gardens by the riverside, like trees of aloes which the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

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    17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

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    15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound 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.