Job Chapter 8 verse 16 Holy Bible
He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.
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He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.
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He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
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He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
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He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
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He is green before the sun, His shoots go forth over his garden.
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Green he `is' before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - He is green before the sun. Bildad here introduces a third and more elaborate simile. The hypocrite, or ungodly man (ver. 13), is as a gourd (Jonah 4:6), or other rapidly growing plant, which shoots forth at sunrise with a wealth of greenery, spreading itself over a whole garden, and even sending forth its sprays and tendrils beyond it (comp. Genesis 49:22) - lovely to look at, and full, apparently, of life and vigour. And his branch shooteth forth in his garden; rather, over his garden, or beyond his, garden.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) He is green.--Here begins, as we understand it, another and an opposite picture, which fact is marked in the Hebrew by an emphatic pronoun. "Green is he (see Job 8:6) before the sun, &c., quite unlike the watery paper-plant. This man is verdant and luxuriant, not in the midst of moisture, but even before the sun." There is not the same promise of verdure, but a greater realisation of it.
