16 The [a]tree is green before the Sun, and the branches spread over the garden thereof.

17 The roots thereof are wrapped about the fountain, and are folded about the house of stones.

18 If any pluck it from his place, and it [b]deny, saying, I have not seen thee,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 8:16 He compareth the just to a tree, which although it be removed out of one place unto another, yet flourisheth: so the affliction of the godly turneth to their profit.
  2. Job 8:18 That is, so that there remain nothing there to prove whether the tree had grown there or no.

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