Job 8:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 18:16 : 16 His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off.
  • Job 29:19 : 19 My root spread out to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.
  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes 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.
  • Isa 40:24 : 24 Indeed, they shall not be planted; indeed, they shall not be sown; indeed, 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.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously? 2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their hearts.
  • Mark 11:20 : 20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 8:15-16
    2 verses
    85%

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

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

  • Job 8:18-19
    2 verses
    82%

    18If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'

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

  • Job 18:16-17
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    79%

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

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

  • Job 14:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

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

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

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

  • Jer 17:8
    75%

    8For 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 17:5-10
    6 verses
    74%

    5He 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.

    6And 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.

    7There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine bent her roots toward him and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

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

    9Say 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.

    10Yes, 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.

  • Job 28:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9He puts forth his hand on the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.

    10He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.

  • Job 8:12
    74%

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

  • Job 29:19
    74%

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

  • Ezek 31:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

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

    8The 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.

    9I 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.

  • Dan 4:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14He cried aloud, and said this, 'Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the birds from its branches.

    15Nevertheless 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.

  • Job 40:21-22
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    71%

    21He lies under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed and marsh.

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

  • Ps 80:9-11
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    9You prepared room before it, and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

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

    11It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its branches unto the river.

  • Ezek 31:14
    71%

    14So 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.

  • Dan 4:11
    71%

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

  • Job 15:32-33
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Ezek 31:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4The 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.

    5Therefore 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.

  • Ps 37:35
    70%

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

  • Job 14:18
    70%

    18And surely the mountain falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of its place.

  • Job 31:8
    70%

    8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.

  • Joel 1:7
    70%

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

  • Job 5:3
    70%

    3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.

  • Isa 17:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore you shall plant pleasant plants, and set them with strange slips:

    11In 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.

  • Job 24:18
    70%

    18He is as swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

  • Isa 18:5
    69%

    5For 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.

  • Isa 44:14
    69%

    14He 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.

  • Ps 80:15
    69%

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

  • Ezek 19:11
    69%

    11And 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.

  • Job 19:10
    69%

    10He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and my hope He has removed like a tree.

  • Ps 141:7
    69%

    7Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave, as when one cuts and splits wood upon the earth.