Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
His roots were entwined upon a heap, he shall see a house of stones.
New American Standard Bible
He
King James Version
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
Holman Bible
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.
Darby Translation
His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place 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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 8:17
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Bildad's First Response To Job
16 It was moist before the sun, and its sprout will come forth upon his garden. 17 His roots were entwined upon a heap, he shall see a house of stones. 18 If he should swallow him down from his place, and it lied upon it: I saw thee not
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Cross References
Job 18:16
From underneath, his roots shall be dried up, and from above, his harvest shall be cut off.
Job 29:19
My root opened to the waters, and the dew will lodge upon my foliage.
Isaiah 5:24
For this as the tongue of fire consumes the straw, and the dry grass of flame will collapse: their root shall be as rottenness, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of Jehovah of armies, and the saying of the Holy One of Israel they despised.
Isaiah 40:24
Also they were not planted: also they were not sown: also their stock took not root in the earth: and he also blew upon them and they will be dried up, and the storm will lift them up as straw.
Jeremiah 12:1-2
Just art thou, O Jehovah, for I will strive to thee: surely I will speak judgments with thee: Wherefore did the way of the evil prosper? all they acting faithlessly with treachery were secure?
Mark 11:20
And in the morning, coming near, they saw the fig tree having been dried up from the roots.
Jude 1:12
These are spots in your loves, feasting together fearlessly, taking care of themselves: clouds wanting water, carried about by winds; decayed trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted;