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Job 15:33
33They will be like a vine whose grapes are harvested too early, like an olive tree that loses its blossoms before the fruit can form.
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
31Let them no longer fool themselves by trusting in empty riches, for emptiness will be their only reward. 32They will be cut down in the prime of life; their branches will never again be green. They will be like a vine whose grapes are harvested too early, like an olive tree that loses its blossoms before the fruit can form. 34For the godless are barren. Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn. 35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their womb produces deceit.”
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 land of Israel wilts in mourning. Lebanon withers with shame. The plain of Sharon is now a wilderness. Bashan and Carmel have been plundered.
- Revelation 6:13Then the stars of the sky fell to the earth like green figs falling from a tree shaken by a strong wind.
- Deuteronomy 28:39You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you will not drink the wine or eat the grapes, for worms will destroy the vines.
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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