Job 8:17

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:16 : 16 Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.
  • Job 29:19 : 19 My roots reach the water, and the dew lies on my branches all night long.
  • 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.
  • Isa 40:24 : 24 Indeed, 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.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 LORD, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. Why are wicked people successful? Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives? 2 You plant them like trees and they put down their roots. They grow prosperous and are very fruitful. They always talk about you, but they really care nothing about you.
  • Mark 11:20 : 20 The Withered Fig Tree In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit– twice dead, uprooted;

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  • Job 8:15-16
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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.

  • Job 8:18-19
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    18If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying,‘I have never seen you!’

    19Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.

  • Job 18:16-17
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    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

  • 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.

  • Jer 17:8
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    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.

  • Ezek 17:5-10
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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.

    7“‘There was another great eagle with broad wings and thick plumage. Now this vine twisted its roots toward him and sent its branches toward him to be watered from the soil where it was planted.

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

    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?’”

  • Job 28:9-10
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    9On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

    10He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.

  • 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!

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

  • Ezek 31:7-9
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    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ps 80:9-11
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    9You cleared the ground for it; it took root, and filled the land.

    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.

  • Ezek 31:14
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    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.

  • Dan 4:11
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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.

  • 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.

  • Ezek 31:4-5
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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.

  • Ps 37:35
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    35I have seen ruthless evil men growing in influence, like a green tree grows in its native soil.

  • Job 14:18
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    18But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed from its place,

  • Job 31:8
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    8then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

  • 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.

  • Job 5:3
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    3I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.

  • Isa 17:10-11
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    10For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines.

    11The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

  • Job 24:18
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    18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

  • 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.

  • Isa 44:14
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    14He cuts down cedars and acquires a cypress or an oak. He gets trees from the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain makes it grow.

  • Ps 80:15
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    15the root your right hand planted, the shoot you made to grow!

  • Ezek 19:11
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    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.

  • 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.

  • Ps 141:7
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    7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.