Job 8:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ See, these are their happy ways, and out of the earth still others will spring.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ See, this is the joy of going the way [of the ungodly]! And from the dust others will spring up [to take his place].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Surely its way is a joy, for from the dust other plants sprout.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ For this is the benefit of his way, that others in turn may spring up from the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.

Job 8:19 Cross References

Job 20:5

that the exulting of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

Job 8:20

“See, God will not reject the blameless, nor take the hand of evildoers.

Psalm 113:7

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Psalm 75:7

but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

Ezekiel 17:24

All the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord. I bring low the high tree; I make high the low tree; I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. I the Lord have spoken; I will accomplish it.

Matthew 3:9

and do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on them he has set the world.