Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

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.

Bible in Basic English

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

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 sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden; 17 His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones. 18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!



Cross References

Job 18:16

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;

Job 29:19

My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

Jeremiah 12:1-2

Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

Mark 11:20

And passing by early in the morning they saw the fig-tree dried up from the roots.

Jude 1:12

These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together with you without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by the winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

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