Job 18:16

Bildad's Second Speech

¹⁵ Nothing he owned remains in his tent.
Burning sulfur is scattered over his home.
¹⁶ His roots below dry up,
and his branches above wither away.
¹⁷ All memory of him perishes from the earth;
he has no name anywhere.

Job

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is struck down;
their roots are withered;
they cannot bear fruit.
Even if they bear children,
I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.

Job 15:30

He will not escape from the darkness;
flames will wither his shoots,
and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected
the instruction of the Lord of Hosts,
and they have despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Amos 2:9

Yet I destroyed the Amorite as Israel advanced;
his height was like the cedars,
and he was as sturdy as the oaks;
I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

Malachi 4:1

“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches.

Job 29:19

My roots will have access to water,
and the dew will rest on my branches all night.

Job 5:3-4

I have seen a fool taking root,
but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.