Job 8:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.

Cross References

Job 18:16

His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.

Job 29:19

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

Job 8:16

He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.

Job 8:18

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

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 be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Mark 11:20

As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.

Jude 1:12

These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;