OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 17

Job 8:17

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His roots are wrapped around the rock pile.

He sees the place of stones.

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Job 8:14–20

14

whose confidence will break apart,

whose trust is a spider’s web.

15

He will lean on his house, but it will not stand.

He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

16

He is green before the sun.

His shoots go out along his garden.

17
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His roots are wrapped around the rock pile.

He sees the place of stones.

18

If he is destroyed from his place,

then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

19

Behold, this is the joy of his way.

Out of the earth, others will spring.

20

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man,

neither will he uphold the evildoers.

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