Devine Scripture

Job 8:17

Job chapter 8 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.16He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.

v.17This passage

v.18If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Mark 11:20

    And as they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.

  • Job 29:19

    My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch:

  • Jude 1:12

    These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

  • Jeremiah 12:1

    Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

  • Job 18:16

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

  • Isaiah 5:24

    Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.