◄ Job 8:16 ►
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Good News Translation
Evil people sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden.

New Revised Standard Version
The wicked thrive before the sun, and their shoots spread over the garden.

Contemporary English Version
Sinful people are like plants with spreading roots and plenty of sun and water.

New American Bible
He thrives in full sun, and over his garden his shoots go forth;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.

green

Job 21:7-15 Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches? . . .

Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus. . . .

Psalm 73:3-12 Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners. . . .

his branch

Job 5:3 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.

Context
Bildad: Job Should Repent
…15He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise: 16He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.17His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide.…
Cross References
Job 8:17
His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide.

Psalm 37:35
I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus.

Psalm 80:11
It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.

Jeremiah 11:16
The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive tree, fair, fruitful, and beautiful: at the noise of a word, a great fire was kindled in it, and the branches thereof are burnt.

Job 8:15
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