Job 8:17 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁷ It wraps its roots around a pile of rocks,\par looking for a place to grow in the rocks.\par

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ His roots are wrapped about the heap, And seeth the place of stones.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ [Godless] his roots are wrapped about the [stone] heap, and see their way [promisingly] among the rocks.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ His roots are wrapped about the stone-heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Its roots are entwined over a pile of rocks, for it sees a home among stones.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones: and among the stones he shall abide.

Job 8:17 Tagairtí Cros

Job 18:16

His roots below will dry up,\par and his branches above will die.\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 8:16

That man is like a plant that has\par plenty of water and sunshine.\par Its branches spread all through the garden.\par

Job 8:18

But if the plant is moved from its place,\par \{it will die\} and no one would know\par that it had ever been there.\par

Isaiah 40:24

\{Those rulers are like plants\};\par they are planted in the ground,\par but before they can send their roots\par into the ground,\par God blows on the “plants,”\par and they become dead and dry,\par and the wind blows them away like straw.\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.

Mark 11:20

The next morning, Jesus was walking with his followers. They saw the fig tree \{that Jesus spoke to the day before\}. The fig tree was dry and dead, even the roots.