Job 8:16
Job · Old Testament · Chapter 8
“He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.”Job 8:16
What Does Job 8:16 Mean?
Job 8:16 is found in the book of Job, chapter 8, verse 16 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 10 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (10)
These passages are connected to Job 8:16 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Jeremiah 17:8“For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.”Ezekiel 47:12“And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.”Job 15:32“It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.”Psalms 80:11“She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.”Job 5:3“I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.”Job 21:7“Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?”Psalms 37:35“I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.”Psalms 73:3“For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.”Isaiah 25:5“Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.”Jeremiah 11:16“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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