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


In Context

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.'

19 Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow.

Job 8:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:17His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:17His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:17His roots are wrapped about the'stone -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:17His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:17His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:17His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:17His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:17By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:17His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones.