Job 18:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

Cross References

Job 15:30

He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

Job 15:32

His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.

Job 29:19

My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

Job 8:17

His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

Isaiah 14:20

As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

Isaiah 5:24

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Hosea 9:16

The rod has come on Ephraim, their root is dry, let them have no fruit; even though they give birth, I will put to death the dearest fruit of their bodies.

Amos 2:9

Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.

Malachi 4:1

For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.