Job 8:19 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁹ Behold, this is the joy of his way; and out of the earth 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 but for a moment?

Job 8:20

“Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, 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

And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.”

Matthew 3:9

and do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’; 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.