Job 29:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

My roots reach the water, and the dew lies on my branches all night long.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 1:3 : 3 He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.
  • Jer 17:8 : 8 They 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.
  • Job 18:16 : 16 Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.
  • Hos 14:5-7 : 5 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon. 6 His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon. 7 People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.

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  • 20My glory will always be fresh in me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’

  • 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.

  • Ezek 31:4-9
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    4The water made it grow; underground springs made it grow tall. Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted, while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field.

    5Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches grew long, because of the plentiful water in its shoots.

    6All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth, in its shade all the great nations lived.

    7It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.

    8The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it, nor could the fir trees match its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches; no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.

    9I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

  • 18Job’s Confidence“Then I thought,‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.

  • Hos 14:5-6
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    5I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.

    6His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

  • Job 8:16-17
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    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.

  • Ezek 17:5-6
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    5He took one of the seedlings of the land, placed it in a cultivated plot; a shoot by abundant water, like a willow he planted it.

    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.

  • 16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

  • 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.

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    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.

  • Ps 80:10-11
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    10The mountains were covered by its shadow, the highest cedars by its branches.

    11Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea, and its shoots the Euphrates River.

  • Job 40:21-22
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    21Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.

    22The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.

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    10“‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by water. It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

    11Its boughs were strong, fit for rulers’ scepters; it reached up into the clouds. It stood out because of its height and its many branches.

    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.

  • 40I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

  • 23I will plant it on a high mountain of Israel, and it will raise branches and produce fruit and become a beautiful cedar. Every bird will live under it; Every winged creature will live in the shade of its branches.

  • Dan 4:11-12
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    11The tree grew large and strong. Its top reached far into the sky; it could be seen from the borders of all the land.

    12Its foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful; on it there was food enough for all. Under it the wild animals used to seek shade, and in its branches the birds of the sky used to nest. All creatures used to feed themselves from it.

  • 11My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.

  • 6They are like valleys stretched forth, like gardens by the river’s side, like aloes that the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

  • Job 19:9-10
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    9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.

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

  • 8In a good field, by abundant waters, it was planted to grow branches, bear fruit, and become a beautiful vine.

  • 6in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.

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

  • 4For this is what the LORD has told me:“I will wait and watch from my place, like scorching heat produced by the sunlight, like a cloud of mist in the heat of harvest.”

  • 24I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

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    3He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.

  • 30For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered.

  • 19Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying,“Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more.”

  • 5Water engulfed me up to my neck; the deep ocean surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.

  • 2My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.

  • 4just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

  • 16The trees of the LORD receive all the rain they need, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted,

  • 17Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.