KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 8:17–18
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Job 8:17
17His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
17His roots are wrapped about the heape, and seeth the place of stones.
Job 8:18
18If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
18If he destroy him from his place, then it shal denie him, saying, I haue not seene thee.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 8:17
The underground parts by which plants are fixed and nourished; figuratively, origins, causes, or established bases.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Entwined or wound closely around or together.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Around, concerning, near, or engaged in; on every side or approximately, according to context.
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A pile or mass; to collect or pile up.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A location, position, room, occasion, office, or passage, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Pieces or masses of rock; or, as a verb, strikes with stones, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Job 8:18
To ruin, demolish, kill, consume, or bring to an end.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A location, position, room, occasion, office, or passage, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To disown or refuse to acknowledge the person named.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 17
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Open the full verse study24Yea, 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.
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Open the full verse study24Therefore 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.
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Open the full verse study1RIGHTEOUS 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?
2Thou 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.
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Open the full verse study16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
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Open the full verse study19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
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Open the full verse study12These 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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Open the full verse study20¶ And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
From verse 18
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Open the full verse study10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
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Open the full verse study8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
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Open the full verse study36Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
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Open the full verse study9The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
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Open the full verse study10For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
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Open the full verse study18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
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Open the full verse study7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
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