Job 18:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 9:16 : 16 Ephraim will be struck down– their root will be dried up; they will not yield any fruit. Even if they do bear children, I will kill their precious offspring.
  • Amos 2:9 : 9 For Israel’s sake I destroyed the Amorites. They were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks, but I destroyed the fruit on their branches and their roots in the ground.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 (3:19)“For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“It will not leave them even a root or branch.
  • Job 15:30 : 30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.
  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Job 29:19 : 19 My roots reach the water, and the dew lies on my branches all night long.
  • Job 5:3-4 : 3 I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.

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  • Job 18:17-19
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    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

    19He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

  • Job 15:29-30
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    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

    30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

  • Job 15:32-33
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    32Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

    33Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.

  • Job 18:14-15
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    14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

    15Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

  • Job 14:7-9
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    7The Inevitability of Death“But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

    8Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,

    9at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.

  • Job 8:15-18
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    15He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

    16He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

    17It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

    18If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying,‘I have never seen you!’

  • Ezek 17:9-10
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    9“‘Say to them: This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Will it prosper? Will he not rip out its roots and cause its fruit to rot and wither? All its foliage will wither. No strong arm or large army will be needed to pull it out by its roots.

    10Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper? Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it? Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”

  • Ps 80:16
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    16It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.

  • Ezek 31:11-14
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    11I gave it over to the leader of the nations. He has judged it thoroughly, as its sinfulness deserves. I have thrown it out.

    12Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land have departed from its shade and left it.

    13On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals will walk on its branches.

    14For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; they will be among mere mortals, with those who descend to the Pit.

  • Job 18:5-7
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    5“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

    7His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

  • Job 8:12
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    12While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

  • Ezek 19:12
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    12But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit; its strong branches broke off and withered– a fire consumed them.

  • Isa 40:24
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    24Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

  • Ps 52:5
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    5Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah)

  • Job 24:20
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    20The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

  • Dan 4:14-15
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    14He called out loudly as follows:‘Chop down the tree and lop off its branches! Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit! Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches!

    15But leave its taproot in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with the animals in the grass of the land.

  • Prov 2:22
    76%

    22but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

  • Jer 17:8
    76%

    8They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.

  • Ps 21:10
    75%

    10You destroy their offspring from the earth, their descendants from among the human race.

  • Ps 109:13
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    13May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!

  • Hos 11:6
    75%

    6A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.

  • Job 20:26-27
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    74%

    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

  • Joel 1:7
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    7They have destroyed my vines; they have turned my fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown it aside; the twigs are stripped bare.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

  • Isa 17:9
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    9At that time their fortified cities will be like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, which they abandoned because of the Israelites; there will be desolation.

  • Ezek 17:6
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    6It sprouted and became a vine, spreading low to the ground; its branches turning toward him, its roots were under itself. So it became a vine; it produced shoots and sent out branches.

  • Job 19:10
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    10He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like an uprooted tree.

  • Ezek 19:14
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    14A fire has gone out from its branch; it has consumed its shoot and its fruit. No strong branch was left in it, nor a scepter to rule.’ This is a lament song, and has become a lament song.”

  • Hos 13:15
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    15The Capital of the Northern Empire Will Be Destroyed Even though he flourishes like a reed plant, a scorching east wind will come, a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. As a result, his spring will dry up; his well will become dry. That wind will spoil all his delightful foods in the containers in his storehouse.

  • Job 29:19
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    19My roots reach the water, and the dew lies on my branches all night long.