Job 8:16
Modern Translations
New International Version
They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;

New Living Translation
The godless seem like a lush plant growing in the sunshine, its branches spreading across the garden.

English Standard Version
He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.

Berean Study Bible
He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.

New American Standard Bible
“He flourishes before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden.

NASB 1995
"He thrives before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden.

NASB 1977
“He thrives before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden.

Amplified Bible
“He thrives and prospers [like a green plant] before the sun, And his branches spread out over his garden.

Christian Standard Bible
He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine; his shoots spread out over his garden.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine; his shoots spread out over his garden.

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

Good News Translation
Evil people sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine. The shoots spread over his garden.

International Standard Version
He is a fresh sapling planted in the sunlight, spreading out its branches over its garden.

NET Bible
He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

New King James Version
He grows green in the sun, And his branches spread out in his garden.

King James 2000 Bible
He grows green in the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.

New Heart English Bible
He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.

World English Bible
He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.

American King James Version
He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.

American Standard Version
He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.

A Faithful Version
He is moist before the sun, and his branches shoot forth in his garden.

Darby Bible Translation
He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;

English Revised Version
He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.

Webster's Bible Translation
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
It is a greene tree before the sunne, & shooteth foorth the braunches ouer his garden.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Oft tymes a thinge doth florish, and men thynke that it maye abyde the Sonneshyne: it shuteth forth the braunches in his garden,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
He [is] green before the sun, "" And over his garden his branch goes out.

Young's Literal Translation
Green he is before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.

Smith's Literal Translation
It was moist before the sun, and its sprout will come forth upon his garden.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
It is as green fruit before the sun

Lamsa Bible
He is like green vegetation before the sun, and his roots shall rest in a ground liable to be washed away.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap.
















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