Job 8:17New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “His roots wrap around a rock pile, He grasps a house of stones.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— His roots are wrapped about the [stone]-heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Over a heap, his roots are entwined, a place of stones, he descrieth;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— His roots are wrapped about the heape, [and] seeth the place of stones.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— He shall see his house a heap of stones.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones. |
His roots
8328 {8328} Primeשֹׁרֶשׁsheresh{sheh'-resh}
From H8327; a root (literally or figuratively).
are wrapped
x5440 (5440) Complementסָבַךְcabak{saw-bak'}
A primitive root; to entwine.
about
y5440 [5440] Standardסָבַךְcabak{saw-bak'}
A primitive root; to entwine.
z8792 <8792> Grammar
Stem - Pual (See H8849) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 93
x5921 (5921) Complementעַל`al{al}
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural, often with prefix, or as conjugation with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications.
the heap,
1530 {1530} Primeגַּלgal{gal}
From H1556; something rolled, that is, a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins); by analogy a spring of water (plural waves).
[ and] seeth
2372 {2372} Primeחָזָהchazah{khaw-zaw'}
A primitive root; to gaze at; mentally to perceive, contemplate (with pleasure); specifically to have a vision of.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
the place
1004 {1004} Primeבַּיִתbayith{bah'-yith}
Probably from H1129 abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.).
of stones.
68 {0068} Primeאֶבֶן'eben{eh'-ben}
From the root of H1129 through the meaning, to build; a stone. |
Job 8:17
_ _ seeth the place of stones — Hebrew, “the house of stones”; that is, the wall surrounding the garden. The parasite plant, in creeping towards and over the wall — the utmost bound of the garden — is said figuratively to “see” or regard it. |
Job 8:17
Heap — Of stones. This circumstance is added, to signify its firmness and strength, that it was not in loose and sandy ground, which a violent wind might overthrow, but in solid ground, within which were many stones, which its numerous and spreading roots embrace, folding and interweaving themselves about them. Seeth — The tree reacheth thither, takes the advantage of that place for the strengthening of itself. |
- roots:
Job 18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
Job 29:19 My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Jeremiah 12:1-2 Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously? ... Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
Mark 11:20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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