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Ecclesiastes 7:17
Don’t be excessively wicked, and don’t be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
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Job 22:16
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were washed away by a river.
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Psalms 55:23
God, You will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and treachery will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
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Job 18:16-17
His roots below dry up, and his branches above wither away.All memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name anywhere.
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Hosea 14:5-7
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.His new branches will spread, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance, like the forest of Lebanon.The people will return and live beneath his shade. They will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
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John 15:6
If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
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Psalms 52:5-8
This is why God will bring you down forever. He will take you, ripping you out of your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. SelahThe righteous will look on with awe and will ridicule him:“ Here is the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, taking refuge in his destructive behavior.”But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; I trust in God’s faithful love forever and ever.
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Job 8:16-19
He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine; his shoots spread out over his garden.His roots are intertwined around a pile of rocks. He looks for a home among the stones.If he is uprooted from his place, it will deny knowing him, saying,“ I never saw you.”Surely this is the joy of his way of life; yet others will sprout from the dust.
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Ezekiel 17:8-10
It had been planted in a good field by abundant waters in order to produce branches, bear fruit, and become a splendid vine.You are to say: This is what the Lord God says: Will it flourish? Will he not tear out its roots and strip off its fruit so that it shrivels? All its fresh leaves will wither! Great strength and many people will not be needed to pull it from its roots.Even though it is planted, will it flourish? Won’t it completely wither when the east wind strikes it? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.”
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Isaiah 27:11
When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.
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Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is struck down; their roots are withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.
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Job 14:7-9
There is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not die.If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump starts to die in the soil,the smell of water makes it thrive and produce twigs like a sapling.
