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Job 15:32
32Before he is old, his life will end. Like a tree that makes no leaves, he will have no success in life.
Job 15:32 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
- New International Version (NIV)Before his time he will wither, and his branches will not flourish.
- English Standard Version (ESV)It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
- New King James Version (NKJV)It will be accomplished before his time, And his branch will not be green.
Context of Job 15:32
30When it becomes dark, he will not be able to escape. He will be like a tree that fire has burned. God's breath will blow him away! 31He may trust in useless things to save him. But he is deceiving himself. Any help that he receives will also be useless. Before he is old, his life will end. Like a tree that makes no leaves, he will have no success in life. 33He will be like a vine that loses its grapes. They fall off before they are ready to eat. He will be like an olive tree that loses its flowers, so that no olives grow on it. 34People who turn away from God are like that. They have no family to live after them. If they use the money from bribes to build their homes, fire will destroy those homes.
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בְּֽלֹא־י֭וֹמוֹ תִּמָּלֵ֑א וְ֝כִפָּת֗וֹ לֹ֣א רַעֲנָֽנָה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:32
- Job 22:16Those people died before they should have done. A great flood of water took them away. They had no safe place to stand.
- Psalms 55:23And as for wicked people, you, God, will send them to their graves. They will go down into the deep hole of death while they are still young. That is what will happen to those cruel people, who kill and cheat others. But I will trust in you, God.
- Ecclesiastes 7:17But do not be too wicked. Do not be a fool. That might cause you to die when you are still young.
- Job 8:16People who turn away from God are like weeds. When there is plenty of water and the sun shines on them, they grow all over the garden.
- Job 14:7If someone cuts down a tree, the tree may not die. New branches may grow from it.
- Job 18:16He is like a tree whose roots have become dry, and its branches have fallen off.
- Psalms 52:5But God will knock you down, and he will break you into pieces. He will take you away from your home. He will remove you from this world where people live. Selah.
- Isaiah 27:11When the branches become dry, they break off the tree. Women will take the sticks and they will make fires with them. That is what these people are like. They do not understand anything. So their Maker will not help them or be kind to them.
- Ezekiel 17:8But the vine was already growing in a good field where there was plenty of water. It could grow very well in that place, with new branches. It could become a beautiful vine and make grapesthere.”
- Hosea 9:16Ephraim's people are very sick. They are like a plant that has dry roots and it gives no fruit. Even if they give birth to children that they love very much, I will kill those children.’
- Hosea 14:5I will bless Israel's people, like rain that falls on dry ground. They will grow like beautiful flowers. They will have strong roots, like the great trees in Lebanon.
- John 15:6If anyone does not remain in me, that person is like a dead branch. The gardener will throw that branch away and it will die. People throw all those dead branches into the fire so that they burn.
Commentaries on Job 15:32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 32It shall be accomplished before his time - I believe the Vulgate gives the true sense: Antequam dies ejus impleantur, peribit; "He shall perish before his time; before his days are completed." He shall be removed by a violent death, and not live out half his days. 9. And his branch shall not be green - there shall be no scion from his roots; all his posterity shall fail.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 32It shall be accomplished before his time - Margin, “cut off.” The image here is that of a tree, which had been suggested in Job 15:30. Here it is followed up by various illustrations drawn from the flower, the fruit, etc., all of which are designed to denote the same thing - that a wicked man will not be permanently prosperous; he will not live and flourish as he would if he were righteous. He will be like a tree that is cut down before its proper time…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-35Verses 17-35 Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-35Evil people experience everything that happened to Job (see 1:16–19): Attacks by thieves (15:21). Loss of possessions (15:29). Collapse of houses (15:28). Fire (15:30, 34).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3232. Literally, "it (the tree to which he is compared, Job 15:30, or else his life) shall not be filled up in its time"; that is, "he shall be ended before his time." shall not be green--image from a withered tree; the childless extinction of the wicked.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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