God’s Word Translation
Job 15:33
33He will drop his unripened grapes like a vine and throw off his blossoms like an olive tree
Job 15:33 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
- New International Version (NIV)He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He will shake off his unripe grape like a vine, And cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
Context of Job 15:33
31He shouldn’t trust in worthless things and deceive himself because he will get worthless things in return. 32It will happen before his time has come, and his branch will not become green. He 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. 35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their wombs produce deception.”
Read all of Job 15Job 15:33 word by word
יַחְמֹ֣ס כַּגֶּ֣פֶן בִּסְר֑וֹ וְיַשְׁלֵ֥ךְ כַּ֝זַּ֗יִת נִצָּתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 15:33
- Isaiah 33:9The country grieves and wastes away. Lebanon is ashamed and is decaying. Sharon has become like a wilderness. Bashan and Carmel are shaken.
- Revelation 6:13The stars fell from the sky to the earth like figs dropping from a fig tree when it is shaken by a strong wind.
- Deuteronomy 28:39You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you won’t drink any wine or gather any grapes, because worms will eat them.
Commentaries on Job 15:33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 33He shall shake off his unripe grape - 10. Whatever children he may have, they shall never survive him, nor come to mature age. They shall be like wind-fall grapes and blasted olive blossoms. As the vine and olive, which are among the most useful trees, affording wine and oil, so necessary for the worship of God and the comfort of man, are mentioned here, they may be intended to refer to the hopeful progeny of the oppressor; but who fell, like the untimely…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine - The idea here is, that the wicked man shall be like a vine that casts off its grapes while they are yet sour and green, and brings none to perfection; compare the notes at Isaiah 18:5. Scott renders this, “As when the vine her half-grown berries showers, Or poisoned olive her unfolding flowers.” It would seem from this passage that the vine might be so blasted by a hot wind or other cause, as to cast its…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. 3333. Images of incompleteness. The loss of the unripe grapes is poetically made the vine tree's own act, in order to express more pointedly that the sinner's ruin is the fruit of his own conduct (Is 3:11; Jr 6:19).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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