Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

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.

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 "Oftentimes, a thing doth flourish, and men think that it may abide the sunshine. It shooteth forth the branches in its garden, 17 and it taketh many roots: insomuch that it is like a house of stone. 18 But if it be taken out of its place, every man denieth it, saying, 'I know thee not.'

Cross References

Job 18:16

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his harvest be cut down.

Job 29:19

For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore like as fire licketh up the straw, and as the flame consumeth the stubble: Even so - when their root is full - their blossom shall vanish away like dust or smoke. For they have cast away the law of the LORD of Hosts, and blaspheme the word of the holy maker of Israel.

Isaiah 40:24

so that they be not planted, nor sown again, neither their stock rooted again in the earth? For as soon as he bloweth upon them, they wither and fade away, like the straw in a whirlwind.

Jeremiah 12:1-2

O LORD, thou art more righteous than that I should dispute with thee: Nevertheless, let me talk with thee in things reasonable. How happeneth it, that the way of the ungodly is so prosperous? And that it goeth so well with them, which without any shame offend and live in wickedness?

Mark 11:20

And in the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up by the roots.

Jude 1:12

These are spots which of your kindness feast together, without fear, feeding themselves. Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds: and trees without fruit at gathering time, twice dead, and plucked up by the roots.

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