Job 8:17
Its shorashim (roots) are wrapped about the rock heap, 1 and it looks on the bais avanim (place of stones). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
In Context
16He is like a green plant before the shemesh, 1 and its branch shooteth forth in its gan (garden). 1
Cross References
Job 18:16His shorashim shall be dried up beneath, 1 and above his branch shall wither. 1
Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the eish licketh up the stubble, 1 and the flame consumeth the dry grass, 1 so their shoresh shall be as rottenness, 1 and their blossom shall go up as dust; 1 because they have cast away the Torat Hashem Tzva'os, 1 and spurned the word of the Kadosh Yisroel. 1
Jeremiah 12:1Tzaddik art Thou, Hashem, 1 when I make legal pleading of my case before Thee; 1 yet mishpatim (justice) I would speak with Thee: 1 Why doth the Derech Resha'im prosper? 1 Why live they all at ease whose dealings are that of the boged (traitor, treacherous)? 1
Jude 1:12These [men] are hidden reefs [moored at] your seudas (agape-feasts), feasting with you without yires-hakoved, shepherding themselves, waterless clouds being carried away by winds, autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, torn up from their shorashim (roots),
Matthew Henry on Job 8:9-20
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:… Read the whole commentary →