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17 Their roots twine around the stoneheap;
    they live among the rocks.[a]
18 If they are destroyed from their place,
    then it will deny them, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’(A)
19 See, these are their happy ways,[b]
    and out of the earth still others will spring.

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Footnotes

  1. 8.17 Gk Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 8.19 Meaning of Heb uncertain

17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks
    and looks for a place among the stones.
18 But when it is torn from its spot,
    that place disowns(A) it and says, ‘I never saw you.’(B)
19 Surely its life withers(C) away,
    and[a] from the soil other plants grow.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 8:19 Or Surely all the joy it has / is that