Job 8:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

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

Cross References

Job 18:16

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

Job 29:19

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

Job 8:16

He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.

Job 8:18

If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

Isaiah 40:24

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

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.

Mark 11:20

And when they were going by in the morning, they saw the fig-tree dead from the roots.

Jude 1:12

These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,