Job 8:17 · KJV
“His roots are wrapped about the heap, {and} seeth the place of stones.”
— Job 8:17
He {is} green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
If he destroy him from his place, then {it} shall deny him, {saying}, I have not seen thee.
Job 8 — Context
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16He {is} green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
17His roots are wrapped about the heap, {and} seeth the place of stones.
18If he destroy him from his place, then {it} shall deny him, {saying}, I have not seen thee.
19Behold, this {is} the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Cross References
Isaiah 40:24
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Job 29:19
My root {was} spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. {spread...: Heb. opened}
Mark 11:20
And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
Job 18:16
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
Jeremiah 12:1-2
Righteous {art} thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of {thy} judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? {wherefore} are all they happy that deal very treacherously? {talk...: or, reason the case with thee}
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, {so} their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. {fire: Heb. tongue of fire}
Jude 1:12
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds {they are} without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;