Job 18:16 References

16 "His aroots are dried below, And his bbranch is cut off above.

a Isaiah 5:24, Hosea 9:16, Amos 2:9, Malachi 4:1

Isaiah 5

24 Therefore, aas a tongue of fire consumes stubble And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their broot will become clike rot and their blossom blow away as dust; For they have drejected the law of the Lord of hosts And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Hosea 9

16 aEphraim is stricken, their root is dried up, They will bear bno fruit. Even though they bear children, I will slay the cprecious ones of their womb.

Amos 2

9 "Yet it was I who destroyed the aAmorite before them, Though his bheight was like the height of cedars And he was strong as the oaks; I even destroyed his cfruit above and his root below.

Malachi 4

1 "For behold, the day is coming, aburning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be bchaff; and the day that is coming will cset them ablaze," says the Lord of hosts, "so that it will leave them neither root nor branch."

Other references for Job 18:16

b Job 15:30, Job 15:32