Job 8:17
The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
In Context
16The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.
18If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee,
Cross References
Job 18:16His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his branche be cut downe.
Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the flame of fire deuoureth the stubble, and as the chaffe is cosumed of the flame: so their roote shalbe as rottennesse, and their bud shall rise vp like dust, because they haue cast off the Lawe of the Lord of hostes, and contemned the word of the holy one of Israel.
Jeremiah 12:1O Lord, if I dispute with thee, thou art righteous: yet let mee talke with thee of thy iudgements: wherefore doeth the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they in wealth that rebelliously transgresse?
Jude 1:12These are rockes in your feasts of charitie when they feast with you, without al feare, feeding themselues: cloudes they are without water, caried about of windes, corrupt trees and without fruit, twise dead, and plucked vp by ye rootes.
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 →