Scripture · Old Testament

Job 8:16

Job 8:16 is verse 16 of Job chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.

Job 8:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.

15 He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.

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

17 His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.

18 If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 21:7
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

Job 21:8
Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Job 21:9
Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

Job 21:10
Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.

Job 21:11
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

Job 21:12
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

Job 21:14
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Job 21:15
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

Psalms 37:35
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

Psalms 37:36
yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

Psalms 73:3
For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalms 73:4
They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.

Psalms 73:5
They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.

Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

Psalms 73:7
From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

Psalms 73:8
They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

Psalms 73:9
They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.

Psalms 73:10
So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.

Psalms 73:11
The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

Psalms 73:12
Behold, these are the wicked— always carefree as they increase their wealth.

Job 5:3
I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.