Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

New American Standard Bible

“His roots wrap around a rock pile,
He grasps a house of stones.

King James Version

His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

Holman Bible

His roots are intertwined around a pile of rocks.
He looks for a home among the stones.

International Standard Version

Its roots weave around a pile of stones, seeking to entrench itself among the rocks.

A Conservative Version

His roots are wrapped around the [stone] heap. He beholds the place of stones.

American Standard Version

His roots are wrapped about the'stone -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.

Amplified


“His [godless] roots are wrapped around a pile of rocks,
And he gazes at a house of stones.

Darby Translation

His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.

Julia Smith Translation

His roots were entwined upon a heap, he shall see a house of stones.

King James 2000

His roots are wrapped about the stone heap, and looks for a place in the stones.

Lexham Expanded Bible

His roots twine over a stone heap; he sees a house of stone.

Modern King James verseion

His roots are wrapped around the heap, and he sees the place of stones.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and it taketh many roots: insomuch that it is like a house of stone.

NET Bible

It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

New Heart English Bible

His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

The Emphasized Bible

Over a heap, his roots are entwined, a place of stones, he descrieth;

Webster

His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

World English Bible

His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

Youngs Literal Translation

By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁרשׁ 
Sheresh 
Usage: 33

סבך 
Cabak 
Usage: 2

the heap
גּל 
Gal 
Usage: 34

and seeth
חזה 
Chazah 
Usage: 54

the place
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Bildad's First Response To Job

16 He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden. 17 His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them. 18 If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

Cross References

Job 18:16

Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

Job 29:19

My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

Isaiah 5:24

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 40:24

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

Jeremiah 12:1-2

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Mark 11:20

And when they were going by in the morning, they saw the fig-tree dead from the roots.

Jude 1:12

These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

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