| Job 8:17 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "His roots wrap around a rock pile, He grasps a house of stones. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Its roots weave through a pile of stones. They cling to a stone house.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. |
| ASV: | His roots are wrapped about the'stone -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones. |
| BBE: | His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them. |
| DBY: | His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones. |
| ERV: | His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones. |
| JPS: | His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones. |
| WBS: | His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. |
| WEB: | His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones. |
| YLT: | By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for. |
| Job 8:17 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 8:16 "He thrives before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden.
Job 8:18 "If he is removed from his place, Then it will deny him, saying, 'I never saw you.' (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 8:17 Heap - Of stones. This circumstance is added, to signify its firmness and strength, that it was not in loose and sandy ground, which a violent wind might overthrow, but in solid ground, within which were many stones, which its numerous and spreading roots embrace, folding and interweaving themselves about them. Seeth - The tree reacheth thither, takes the advantage of that place for the strengthening of itself. |
| 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: | Beholdeth Entwined Forcing Grasps Heap Looks Pile Rock Rocks Roots Round Sees Stone Stoneheap Stones Twine Twisted Wrap Wrapped |
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