Job 8:16 Parallel Translations
NASB: "He thrives before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine. The shoots spread over his garden.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
ASV: He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.
BBE: He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.
DBY: He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
ERV: He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
JPS: He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
WBS: He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
WEB: He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.
YLT: Green he is before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.
Job 8:16 Cross References
XREF:Psalm 37:35 I have seen a wicked, violent man Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

Psalm 80:11 It was sending out its branches to the sea And its shoots to the River.

Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD called your name, "A green olive tree, beautiful in fruit and form"; With the noise of a great tumult He has kindled fire on it, And its branches are worthless. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 8:16 He [is] {i} green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
(i) He compares the just to a tree, which although it is moved from one place to another, yet flourishes: so the affliction of the godly turns to their profit.
WES: 8:16 He - The secure and prosperous sinner may think himself wronged, when he is compared to a rush or flag. Compare him then to a flourishing and well - rooted tree. Yet even then shall he be suddenly cut off. Green - Flourisheth in the world. Before the sun - Publickly and in the view of all men. Branch - His children, who are here mentioned as additions not only to his comfort, but also to his strength and safety. Garden - A place where it is defended from those injuries to which the trees of the field are subject, and where, besides the advantages common to all trees, it hath peculiar helps from the art and industry of men. So he supposes this man to be placed in the most desirable circumstances.
MHC: 8:8-19 Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A rush growing in fenny ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite's profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider's web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man's pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite's confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.
CONC:Branch Branches Forth Full Garden Green Plant Sap Shooteth Shoots Spread Spreading Sprout Strength Sunshine Thrives
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