Psalm 1:3
Good News Translation
They are like trees that grow beside a stream, that bear fruit at the right time, and whose leaves do not dry up. They succeed in everything they do.

New Revised Standard Version
They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper.

Contemporary English Version
They are like trees growing beside a stream, trees that produce fruit in season and always have leaves. Those people succeed in everything they do.

New American Bible
He is like a tree planted near streams of water, that yields its fruit in season; Its leaves never wither; whatever he does prospers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

tree

Job 14:9 At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.

Isaiah 44:4 And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the running waters.

Jeremiah 17:8 And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.

Ezekiel 17:8 It was planted in a good ground upon many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and bear fruit, that it might become a large vine.

Ezekiel 19:10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

Ezekiel 47:12 And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.

Revelation 22:2 In the midst of the street thereof, and on both sides of the river, was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruits every month: the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations.

bringeth

Psalm 92:14 They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated,

Matthew 21:34,41 And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof. . . .

shall not

Isaiah 27:11 Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

Matthew 13:6 And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away.

Matthew 21:19 And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he saith to it: May no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree withered away.

John 15:6 If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burneth.

Jude 1:12 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots:

wither.

Psalm 128:2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Psalm 129:8 And they that passed by have not said: The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.

Genesis 39:3,23 Who knew very well that the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to prosper in his hand. . . .

Joshua 1:7,8 Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou mayst observe and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst understand all things which thou dost. . . .

1 Chronicles 22:11 Now then, my son, the Lord be with thee, and do thou prosper, and build the house to the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken of thee.

2 Chronicles 31:21 In all the service of the house of the Lord according to the law and the ceremonies, desiring to seek his God with all his heart, and he did it and prospered.

2 Chronicles 32:23 Many also brought victims, and sacrifices to the Lord to Jerusalem, and presents to Ezechias king of Juda: and he was magnified thenceforth in the sight of all nations.

Isaiah 3:10 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings.

Context
The LORD Blesses Job
2But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night. 3And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.4Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.…
Cross References
Genesis 39:2
And the Lord was with him, and he was a prosperous man in all things: and he dwelt in his master's house:

Genesis 39:3
Who knew very well that the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

Numbers 24:6
As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside.

Psalm 92:12
The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

Psalm 106:5
That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.

Psalm 128:2
For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Proverbs 3:33
He shall scorn the scorners, and to the meek he will give grace.

Proverbs 11:28
He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise.

Jeremiah 17:8
And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.

Ezekiel 19:10
Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

Ezekiel 31:5
Therefore was his height exalted above all the trees of the country and his branches were multiplied, and his boughs were elevated because of many waters.

Ezekiel 47:12
And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.

Psalm 1:2
Top of Page
Top of Page