🌪️WEB · Job 8:17
What does Job 8:17 mean?
"His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones."
— Job 8:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.
He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.
“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
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