Job 18:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Their roots dry up beneath, and their branches wither above.

Cross References

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will kill the cherished offspring of their womb.

Malachi 4:1

See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Amos 2:9

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

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become rotten, and their blossom go up like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Job 15:30

they will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up their shoots, and their blossom will be swept away by the wind.

Job 29:19

my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches;

Job 15:32

It will be paid in full before their time, and their branch will not be green.

Isaiah 14:20

You will not be joined with them in burial because you have destroyed your land; you have killed your people. May the descendants of evildoers nevermore be named!

Job 8:17

Their roots twine around the stoneheap; they live among the rocks.