Job 18:16 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁶ His roots below will dry up,\par and his branches above will die.\par

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ The roots [of the wicked] shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off and wither.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Their roots dry out below; their branches wither above.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Let his roots be dried up beneath: and his harvest destroyed above.

Job 18:16 Tagairtí Cros

Job 15:30

The evil person won’t escape the darkness.\par He will be like a tree\par whose leaves die from disease\par and a wind blows them all away.\par

Job 15:32

Before his life is over,\par the evil person will be old and dried up.\par He will be like a dried branch,\par never to be green again.\par

Job 29:19

I thought I would be healthy and virile\par like a healthy plant with\par roots that have plenty of water\par and branches that are wet with dew.\par

Job 8:17

It wraps its roots around a pile of rocks,\par looking for a place to grow in the rocks.\par

Isaiah 14:20

Many other kings have died.\par And they all have their own graves.\par But you will not join them.\par Why? Because you ruined your own country.\par You killed your own people.\par Your children will not continue\par to destroy like you did.\par Your children will be stopped.\par

Isaiah 5:24

\{Bad things will happen to those people\}. Their descendants {\cf2\super [55]} will be completely destroyed—like straw and leaves are burned by fire. Their descendants will be destroyed like a root \{that dies and\} becomes dust. Their descendants will be destroyed like a fire destroys a flower—the ashes blow away in the wind.

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim {\cf2\super [97]} will be punished.\par Their root is dying.\par They will not have any more babies.\par They might give birth to babies,\par but I will kill the precious babies\par that come from their bodies.\par

Amos 2:9

“But it was I who destroyed the Amorites {\cf2\super [40]} before them. The Amorites were tall like cedar trees. They were as strong as oak trees. But I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below. {\cf2\super [41]}

Malachi 4:1

“That time of judgment is coming. It will be like a hot furnace. All those proud people will be punished. All those evil people will burn like straw. At that time, they will be like a bush burning in the fire—and there will not be a branch or root left.” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.