Job 15:32
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32 It will be paid in full (A)before his time,
and his branch will not be green.
Ecclesiastes 7:17
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17 Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. (A)Why should you die before your time?
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Job 22:16
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Footnotes
- Job 22:16 Or their foundation was poured out as a stream (or river)
John 15:6
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6 If anyone does not abide in me (A)he is thrown away like a branch and withers; (B)and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
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Hosea 14:5-7
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5 (A)I will be like the dew to Israel;
(B)he shall blossom like the lily;
he shall take root like the trees (C)of Lebanon;
6 his shoots shall spread out;
his beauty shall be (D)like the olive,
and his fragrance like Lebanon.
7 They shall return and (E)dwell beneath my[a] shadow;
they shall flourish like the grain;
they shall blossom like the vine;
their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
Footnotes
- Hosea 14:7 Hebrew his
Hosea 9:16
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16 Ephraim is stricken;
(A)their root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even (B)though they give birth,
(C)I will put their beloved children to death.
Ezekiel 17:8-10
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8 (A)It had been planted on good soil by abundant waters, that it might produce branches and bear fruit and become a noble vine.
9 “Say, Thus says the Lord God: (B)Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots. 10 Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? (C)Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?”
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Isaiah 27:11
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11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
(A)For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.
Psalm 52:5-8
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5 But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and (A)tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from (B)the land of the living. Selah
6 The righteous shall (C)see and fear,
and shall (D)laugh at him, saying,
7 “See the man who would not make
God his refuge,
but (E)trusted in the abundance of his riches
and sought refuge in his own destruction!”[a]
8 But I am like (F)a green olive tree
in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
forever and ever.
Footnotes
- Psalm 52:7 Or in his work of destruction
Job 18:16-17
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16 His (A)roots dry up beneath,
and his branches (B)wither above.
17 His (C)memory perishes from the earth,
and he has no name in the street.
Job 14:7-9
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7 “For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
8 Though its root grow old in the earth,
and (A)its stump die in the soil,
9 yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out (B)branches like a young plant.
Job 8:16-19
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16 He is a lush plant before the sun,
and his (A)shoots spread over his garden.
17 His roots entwine the stone heap;
he looks upon a house of stones.
18 If he is destroyed from his (B)place,
then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never (C)seen you.’
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way,
and out of (D)the soil others will spring.
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