New Revised Standard Version
Their roots twine around the stoneheap; they live among the rocks.

Contemporary English Version
They wrap their roots tightly around rocks.

New American Bible
About a heap of stones his roots are entwined; among the rocks he takes hold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide.

His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide.

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Job 18:16 Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above.

Job 29:19 My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.

Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 40:24 And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Jeremiah 12:1,2 Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly? . . .

Mark 11:20 And when they passed by in the morning they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

Jude 1:12 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots: