God’s Word Translation
Job 15:32
32It will happen before his time has come, and his branch will not become green.
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
30“He won’t escape the darkness. A flame will shrivel his branches. He will be blown away by his own breath. 31He shouldn’t trust in worthless things and deceive himself because he will get worthless things in return. It will happen before his time has come, and his branch will not become green. 33He will drop his unripened grapes like a vine and throw off his blossoms like an olive tree 34because a mob of godless people produces nothing, and fire burns up the tents of those who offer bribes.
Read all of Job 15Job 15:32 word by word
בְּֽלֹא־י֭וֹמוֹ תִּמָּלֵ֑א וְ֝כִפָּת֗וֹ לֹ֣א רַעֲנָֽנָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 15:32
- Job 22:16They are snatched up before their time. A river washes their foundation away.
- Psalms 55:23But you, O God, will throw ⌞wicked people⌟ into the deepest pit. Bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I will trust you.
- Ecclesiastes 7:17Don’t be too wicked, and don’t be a fool. Why should you die before your time is up?
- Job 8:16He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine. The shoots spread over his garden.
- Job 14:7There is hope for a tree when it is cut down. It will sprout again. Its shoots will not stop sprouting.
- Job 18:16His roots dry up under him. His branches wither over him.
- Psalms 52:5But God will ruin you forever. He will grab you and drag you out of your tent. He will pull your roots out of this world of the living. Selah
- Isaiah 27:11When the branches are dried up, they will be broken off. Women will come and build a fire with them. These people don’t understand ⌞these things⌟. That is why their maker won’t have compassion on them, and their Creator won’t have pity on them.
- Ezekiel 17:8It was planted in good soil beside plenty of water so that it could grow branches, bear fruit, and become a wonderful vine.’
- Hosea 9:16“The people of Ephraim are like sick plants. Their roots are dried up. They have no fruit. Even if they were to have children, I would kill their dear children.”
- Hosea 14:5I will be like dew to the people of Israel. They will blossom like flowers. They will be firmly rooted like cedars from Lebanon.
- John 15:6Whoever doesn’t live in me is thrown away like a branch and dries up. Branches like this are gathered, thrown into a fire, and burned.
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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