Job 8:17
His roots are wrapped around the rock pile, He sees the place of stones.
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- Job 18:16 : 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.
- Job 29:19 : 19 My root is spread out to the waters, The dew lies all night on my branch;
- Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall go up as dust; Because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isa 40:24 : 24 Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
- Jer 12:1-2 : 1 Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease 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, and far from their heart.
- Mark 11:20 : 20 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.
- Jude 1:12 : 12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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- Job 8:15-162 verses85%
15 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
16 He is green before the sun, His shoots go forth over his garden.
- Job 8:18-192 verses82%
18 If he is destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way: Out of the earth shall others spring.
- Job 18:16-172 verses79%
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
- Job 14:7-93 verses79%
7 "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, That the tender branch of it will not cease.
8 Though the root of it grows old in the earth, And the stock of it dies in the ground;
9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.
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8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
- Ezek 17:5-106 verses74%
5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.
6 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots of it were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
9 Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots of it, and cut off the fruit of it, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the roots of it.
10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.
- Job 28:9-102 verses74%
9 He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, And he overturns the mountains by the roots.
10 He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
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12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.
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19 My root is spread out to the waters, The dew lies all night on my branch;
- Ezek 31:7-93 verses73%
7 Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.
8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its 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.
- Dan 4:14-152 verses71%
14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.
15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth:
- Job 40:21-222 verses71%
21 He lies under the lotus trees, In the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
22 The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.
- Ps 80:9-113 verses71%
9 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.
11 It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.
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14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who 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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11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height of it reached to the sky, and the sight of it to the end of all the earth.
- Job 15:32-332 verses71%
32 It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.
- Ezek 31:4-52 verses71%
4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers of it ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.
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35 I have seen the wicked in great power, Spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
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18 "But the mountain falling comes to nothing; The rock is removed out of its place;
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8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
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7 He has laid my vine waste, And stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
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3 I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Isa 17:10-112 verses70%
10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set it with strange slips.
11 In the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed to blossom; but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth: They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.
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5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.
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14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest: he plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.
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15 The stock which your right hand planted, The branch that you made strong for yourself.
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11 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
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10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
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7 "As when one plows and breaks up the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."