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Job 8:16
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He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine;his shoots spread out over his garden.
He is green before the sun, His shoots go forth over his garden.
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.
They are like well-watered plants in the sunshine that spread their roots all through the garden.
He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.
"He thrives and prospers [like a green plant] before the sun, And his branches spread out over his garden.
"He flourishes before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden.
He is green before the sun, His shoots go forth over his garden.
The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.
He thrives before the sun,And his shoots go forth over his garden.
He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.
Sinful people are like plants with spreading roots and plenty of sun and water.
[for its destruction will come] like the lush growth of a plant in the sun, its shoots may spread out all over its garden,
He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
Such people are like a vine that gets plenty of water and sunshine, and its branches spread throughout the garden.
He is like green vegetation before the sun, and his roots shall rest in a ground liable to be washed away.
Evil people sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden.
He is thriving before the sun, and his plant shoots spread over his garden.
He is moist before the sun, and his tender plants shoot forth on his garden.
Oft tymes a thinge doth florish, and men thynke that it maye abyde the Sonneshyne: it shuteth forth the braunches in his garden,
He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.
He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
He is greene before the sunne, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
It is a greene [tree] before the sunne, & shooteth foorth the braunches ouer his garden.
For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap.
He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
The rusche semeth moist, bifor that the sunne come; and in the risyng of the sunne the seed therof schal go out.
He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.
He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
He grows green in the sun, And his branches spread out in his garden.
The godless seem like a lush plant growing in the sunshine, its branches spreading across the garden.
He is full of strength in the sunshine, and his branches spread out over his garden.
The wicked thrive before the sun, and their shoots spread over the garden.
Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:
He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.
He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.
Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.
"He thrives before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
green: Job 21:7-15, Psalms 37:35, Psalms 37:36, Psalms 73:3-12
his branch: Job 5:3
Reciprocal: Job 15:32 - and his branch Isaiah 25:5 - branch Jeremiah 17:8 - he shall Ezekiel 47:12 - whose
Cross-References
And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.
For the priests that bare the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Jehovah commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
For he will give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways.
Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in From this time forth and for evermore.
As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He [is] green before the sun,.... Which some understand of the rush or flag, of which a further account is given, as setting forth more fully the case of wicked men and hypocrites; but to either of these do not agree the situation of it in a garden, the shooting forth of its branches, and the height of it, and its striking its roots deep in stony places: Cocceius interprets it of the "herb" or grass before which the flag withers, Job 8:12; but the same objections, or most of them, lie against that also; rather, from the description of it, a tall large tree is designed, to which hypocrites in their most flourishing circumstances are compared, and yet come to nothing, Psalms 37:35; that is "green" in its leaves, and looks beautiful, so they in a profession of religion, which is like green leaves without fruit; they make in it a fair show in the flesh, take up and him the lamp of a profession, and retain it bright and fair for a time; or, like a tree full of sap, or "juicy" i; or, as Mr. Broughton renders it, "juiceful"; denoting, not a fulness of the spirit and his grace, or of faith, hope, love, c. and of righteousness and goodness, but of, outward prosperity, having as much as heart could wish, and great plenty of good things laid up for many years: and this tree is said to be green and juicy "before the sun" either in the presence and through the influence of it, as hypocrites flourish, even in a religious way, while the sun of prosperity shines upon them, and no longer; or openly and publicly, in the sight of all men, as this phrase is used, 2 Samuel 12:11; and as such men do, in the view of all men, professors and profane, doing all they do to be seen of men, and before whom they are outwardly righteous, and reckoned good men; or, "before the sun" rises, as the Targum and Aben Ezra, so hypocrites flourish, before the sun of persecution arises and smites them, because of their profession, and then they drop it; see Matthew 13:6;
and his branch shooteth forth in his garden; or "over" k it; and branch may be put branches, which in a flourishing tree spread themselves to cover a considerable piece of ground: Mr. Broughton renders it, "and his suckers sprout over his orchard"; all which may denote the increase of a wicked man, in his family, in his wealth and substance, and particularly in his posterity, which are as branches and suckers from him; and Bildad, if these are his own words, may have respect to Job, and to his large substance and number of children he had in his prosperity, when he had an hedge set about him, and was enclosed as in a garden: and whereas the church of God is sometimes compared to a garden, Song of Solomon 4:12; it agrees very well with hypocrites, who have a place there, and are called hypocrites in Sion, where they have a name, and flourish for a while: many interpreters, both Jewish l and Christian m, interpret this, and what follows, of truly righteous and good men under afflictive providences, who notwithstanding continue, and are not the worse, but the better for them; their leaf of profession is always green, and withers not; and that "before the sun", even of adversity and affliction; and though that beats upon them, and smites them severely, they are like green olive trees, or the cedars of God, full of sap, full of the grace of God, and continually supplied with it; and so patiently endure temptation and affliction, bear the heat and burden of the day, and are not careful in the year of drought; see Song of Solomon 1:6; such are planted in the garden and house of the Lord by himself and shall never be rooted up; where their branches spread, and they grow in grace, and in the knowledge of all divine things, and are filled with the fruits of righteousness.
i רטוב "succosus", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Schultens "viridis quidem et succi plenus", Michaelis. k על "supra", Junius Tremellius, Mercerus, Codurcus "super", Montanus, Piscator, Schmidt, Schultens. l Saadiah Caon, R. Levi, Ben Gersom. m Vatablus, Beza, Diodati, Cocceius, Gussetius, p. 247.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He is green before the sun - Vulgate, “antequam veniat sol - before the sun comes.” So the Chaldee, “before the rising of the sun.” So Eichhorn renders it. According to this, which is probably the true interpretation, the passage means that he is green and flourishing before the sun rises, but that he cannot hear its heat and withers away. A new illustration is here introduced, and the object is to compare the hypocrite with a vigorous plant that grows up quick and sends its branches afar, but which has no depth of root, and which, when the intense heat of the sun comes upon it, withers away. The comparison is not with a tree, which would bear the heat of the sun, but rather with those succulent plants which have a large growth of leaves and branches, like a gourd or vine, but which will not bear a drought or endure the intense heat of the sun. “This comparison of the transitory nature of human hope and prosperity to the sudden blight which over throws the glory of the forest and of the garden,” says the Editor of the Pictorial Bible (on Psalms 37:35), “is at once so beautiful and so natural, as to have been employed by poets of every age.” One such comparison of exquisite finish occurs in Shakespeare:
This is the state of man! Today he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope; tomorrow blossoms,
And hears his blushing honours thick upon him:
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a ripening, nips his shoot,
And then he falls, as I do.
And his branch shooteth forth ... - A comparison of a prosperous person or nation with a vine which spreads in this manner, is common in the Scriptures. See Psalms 80:11 :
She sent out her boughs unto the sea,
And her branches unto the river.
Compare the note at Isaiah 16:8. A similar figure occurs in Psalms 37:35 :
I have seen the wicked in great power,
And spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 8:16. He is green before the sun — This is another metaphor. The wicked is represented as a luxuriant plant, in a good soil, with all the advantages of a good situation; well exposed to the sun; the roots intervolving themselves with stones, so as to render the tree more stable; but suddenly a blast comes, and the tree begins to die. The sudden fading of its leaves, &c., shows that its root is become as rottenness, and its vegetable life destroyed. I have often observed sound and healthy trees, which were flourishing in all the pride of vegetative health, suddenly struck by some unknown and incomprehensible blast, begin to die away, and perish from the roots. I have seen also the prosperous wicked, in the inscrutable dispensations of the Divine providence, blasted, stripped, made bare, and despoiled, in the same way.
