Job 18:16
His roots wither underneath, while his branches above are being cut off.
Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is blighted; its roots shriveled. It can bear no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will kill their cherished offspring.
Job 15:30
He won't escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he'll depart by the breath of God's mouth.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as flames of fire devour straw, as dry grass collapses in flames, so their root will be rotten, and their blossom will blow away like dust, because they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Amos 2:9
Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites in front of them, though their height seemed like a cedar, though their strength seemed like an oak, but whose fruit I destroyed from above and the roots from beneath.
Malachi 4:1
"The coming day is certainly going to burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and all who practice evil will be stubble the coming day will set them on fire," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
Job 29:19
My roots have spread out and have found water, and dew settles at night on my branches.
Job 5:3-4
"I myself saw a fool becoming established, but I suddenly cursed where he lived.