Job 8:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ His roots are wrapped about the heap, And seeth the place of stones.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ [Godless] his roots are wrapped about the [stone] heap, and see their way [promisingly] among the rocks.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ His roots are wrapped about the stone-heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Its roots are entwined over a pile of rocks, for it sees a home among stones.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones: and among the stones he shall abide.

Job 8:17 Cross References

Job 18:16

His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.

Job 29:19

my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,

Job 8:16

He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.

Job 8:18

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Mark 11:20

As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.

Jude 1:12

These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;