Job 18:16

Bildad's Second Speech

¹⁵ “There dwells in his tent nothing of his;
Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.
¹⁶ “His roots are dried below,
And his branch is cut off above.
¹⁷ “Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.

Job

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will bear no fruit.
Even though they bear children,
I will slay the precious ones of their womb.

Job 15:30

“He will not escape from darkness;
The flame will wither his shoots,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.

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.

Amos 2:9

“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,
Though his height was like the height of cedars
And he was strong as the oaks;
I even destroyed his fruit above and his root below.

Malachi 4:1

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”

Job 29:19

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

Job 5:3-4

“I have seen the foolish taking root,
And I cursed his abode immediately.