Job 8:17

Bildad's First Response To Job

¹⁶ “He thrives before the sun,
And his shoots spread out over his garden.
¹⁷ “His roots wrap around a rock pile,
He grasps a house of stones.
¹⁸ “If he is removed from his place,
Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’

Job

Job 18:16

“His roots are dried below,
And his branch is cut off above.

Job 29:19

‘My root is spread out to the waters,
And dew lies all night on my branch.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble
And dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust;
For they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely have they been planted,
Scarcely have they been sown,
Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth,
But He merely blows on them, and they wither,
And the storm carries them away like stubble.

Jeremiah 12:1-2

Righteous are You, O Lord, that I would plead my case with You;
Indeed I would discuss matters of justice with You:
Why has the way of the wicked prospered?
Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?

Mark 11:20

As they were passing by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up.

Jude 1:12

These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;