Job 18:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ The roots [of the wicked] shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off and wither.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Their roots dry out below; their branches wither above.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.

Job 18:16 Cross References

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.

Malachi 4:1

For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Amos 2:9

Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh 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 the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Job 15:30

He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Job 29:19

My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch:

Job 15:32

It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.

Isaiah 14:20

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.

Job 8:17

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