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Ecclesiastes 7:17
Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool— why die before your time? (niv)
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Job 22:16
They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood. (niv)
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Psalms 55:23
But you, God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of decay; the bloodthirsty and deceitful will not live out half their days. But as for me, I trust in you. (niv)
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Job 18:16-17
His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land. (niv)
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Hosea 14:5-7
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily. Like a cedar of Lebanon he will send down his roots;his young shoots will grow. His splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.People will dwell again in his shade; they will flourish like the grain, they will blossom like the vine— Israel’s fame will be like the wine of Lebanon. (niv)
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John 15:6
If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. (niv)
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Psalms 52:5-8
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living.The righteous will see and fear; they will laugh at you, saying,“ Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!”But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever. (niv)
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Job 8:16-19
They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says,‘ I never saw you.’Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow. (niv)
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Ezekiel 17:8-10
It had been planted in good soil by abundant water so that it would produce branches, bear fruit and become a splendid vine.’“ Say to them,‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by the roots.It has been planted, but will it thrive? Will it not wither completely when the east wind strikes it— wither away in the plot where it grew?’” (niv)
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Isaiah 27:11
When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor. (niv)
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Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring.” (niv)
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Job 14:7-9
“ At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant. (niv)
