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Job 8:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. "

Job 8:16

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14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

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

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

18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

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Jeremiah 17:8

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Ezekiel 47:12

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Job 15:32

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Job 21:7-15

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Jeremiah 11:16

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"The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken."

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From This Chapter

Job 8:1

"Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,"

Job 8:2

"How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?"

Job 8:3

"Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?"

Job 8:4

"If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;"

Job 8:5

"If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;"

Job 8:6

"If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous."

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