Job 8:17

New Century Version

They wrap their roots around a pile of rocks and look for a place among the stones.

Cross References

Job 18:16

Their roots dry up below ground, and their branches die above ground.

Job 29:19

My roots will reach down to the water. The dew will lie on the branches all night.

Job 8:16

They are like well-watered plants in the sunshine that spread their roots all through the garden.

Job 8:18

But if a plant is torn from its place, then that place rejects it and says, ‘I never saw you.’

Isaiah 40:24

They are like plants that are placed in the ground, like seeds that are planted. As soon as they begin to grow strong, he blows on them and they die, and the wind blows them away like chaff.

Isaiah 5:24

They will be destroyed just as fire burns straw or dry grass. They will be destroyed like a plant whose roots rot and whose flower dies and blows away like dust. They have refused to obey the teachings of the Lord All-Powerful and have hated the message from the Holy God of Israel.

Mark 11:20

The next morning as Jesus was passing by with his followers, they saw the fig tree dry and dead, even to the roots.

Jude 1:12

They are like dirty spots in your special Christian meals you share. They eat with you and have no fear, caring only for themselves. They are clouds without rain, which the wind blows around. They are autumn trees without fruit that are pulled out of the ground. So they are twice dead.