Job 8:19

New Century Version

Now joy has gone away; other plants grow up from the same dirt.

Cross References

Job 20:5

The happiness of evil people is brief, and the joy of the wicked lasts only a moment.

Job 8:20

“Surely God does not reject the innocent or give strength to those who do evil.

Psalm 113:7

The Lord lifts the poor from the dirt and takes the helpless from the ashes.

Psalm 75:7

God is the judge; he judges one person as guilty and another as innocent.

Ezekiel 17:24

Then all the trees in the countryside will know that I am the Lord. I bring down the high tree and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree grow. I am the Lord. I have spoken, and I will do it.’ ”

Matthew 3:9

And don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘Abraham is our father.’ I tell you that God could make children for Abraham from these rocks.

1 Samuel 2:8

The Lord raises the poor up from the dust, and he lifts the needy from the ashes. He lets the poor sit with princes and receive a throne of honor. “The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord, and the Lord set the world upon them.