16He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;


In Context

13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.

14 What he trusts in is fragile ; what he relies on is a spider's web.

15 He leans on his web, but it gives way; he clings to it, but it does not hold.

16 He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;

17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.

18 But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, 'I never saw you.'

Job 8:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:16He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:16He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:16He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:16He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16Green he is before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:16He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.