Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden; New Living Translation The godless seem like a lush plant growing in the sunshine, its branches spreading across the garden. English Standard Version He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden. Berean Standard Bible He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden. King James Bible He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. New King James Version He grows green in the sun, And his branches spread out in his garden. New American Standard Bible “He flourishes before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden. NASB 1995 “He thrives before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden. NASB 1977 “He thrives before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden. Legacy Standard Bible He thrives before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden. Amplified Bible “He thrives and prospers [like a green plant] before the sun, And his branches spread out over his garden. Christian Standard Bible He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine; his shoots spread out over his garden. Holman Christian Standard Bible He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine; his shoots spread out over his garden. American Standard Version He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden. Aramaic Bible in Plain English It is as green fruit before the sun Brenton Septuagint Translation For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap. Contemporary English Version Sinful people are like plants with spreading roots and plenty of sun and water. Douay-Rheims Bible He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth. English Revised Version He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden. GOD'S WORD® Translation He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine. The shoots spread over his garden. Good News Translation Evil people sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden. International Standard Version He is a fresh sapling planted in the sunlight, spreading out its branches over its garden. JPS Tanakh 1917 He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden. Literal Standard Version He [is] green before the sun, | And over his garden his branch goes out. Majority Standard Bible He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden. New American Bible He thrives in full sun, and over his garden his shoots go forth; NET Bible He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden. New Revised Standard Version The wicked thrive before the sun, and their shoots spread over the garden. New Heart English Bible He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden. Webster's Bible Translation He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. World English Bible He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden. Young's Literal Translation Green he is before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Bildad: Job Should Repent…15He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure. 16He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden. 17His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.… Cross References Job 8:17 His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones. Psalm 37:35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree, Psalm 80:11 It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River. Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed. Treasury of Scripture He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden. green Job 21:7-15 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? … Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree… Psalm 73:3-12 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked… his branch Job 5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. Jump to Previous Branch Branches Forth Full Garden Green Plant Sap Shooteth Shoots Spread Spreading Sprout Strength Sun Sunshine Well-WateredJump to Next Branch Branches Forth Full Garden Green Plant Sap Shooteth Shoots Spread Spreading Sprout Strength Sun Sunshine Well-WateredJob 8 1. Bildad shows God's justice in dealing with men according to their works.8. He alleges antiquity to prove the certain destruction of the hypocrite. 20. He applies God's just dealing to Job. (16) He is green.--Here begins, as we understand it, another and an opposite picture, which fact is marked in the Hebrew by an emphatic pronoun. "Green is he (see Job 8:6) before the sun, &c., quite unlike the watery paper-plant. This man is verdant and luxuriant, not in the midst of moisture, but even before the sun." There is not the same promise of verdure, but a greater realisation of it.Verse 16. - He is green before the sun. Bildad here introduces a third and more elaborate simile. The hypocrite, or ungodly man (ver. 13), is as a gourd (Jonah 4:6), or other rapidly growing plant, which shoots forth at sunrise with a wealth of greenery, spreading itself over a whole garden, and even sending forth its sprays and tendrils beyond it (comp. Genesis 49:22) - lovely to look at, and full, apparently, of life and vigour. And his branch shooteth forth in his garden; rather, over his garden, or beyond his, garden. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Heה֭וּא (hū) Pronoun - third person masculine singular Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are is a well-watered plant רָטֹ֣ב (rā·ṭōḇ) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 7373: Moist, juicy, fresh in לִפְנֵי־ (lip̄·nê-) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 6440: The face the sunshine, שָׁ֑מֶשׁ (šā·meš) Noun - common singular Strong's 8121: The sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement spreading תֵצֵֽא׃ (ṯê·ṣê) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim its shoots יֹֽנַקְתּ֥וֹ (yō·naq·tōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 3127: A young shoot, twig over וְעַ֥ל (wə·‘al) Conjunctive waw | Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against the garden. גַּ֝נָּת֗וֹ (gan·nā·ṯōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 1593: A garden Links Job 8:16 NIVJob 8:16 NLT Job 8:16 ESV Job 8:16 NASB Job 8:16 KJV Job 8:16 BibleApps.com Job 8:16 Biblia Paralela Job 8:16 Chinese Bible Job 8:16 French Bible Job 8:16 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 8:16 He is green before the sun (Jb) |
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