Job 15:32
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
In Context
31Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself. For vanity shall be his recompense.
33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.
Cross References
Job 8:16He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
Job 18:16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
Psalms 52:5God will likewise destroy thee forever. He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Proverbs 10:27The fear of LORD prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Isaiah 27:11When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them
Hosea 9:16Ephraim is smitten. Their root is dried up. They shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb.
Matthew Henry on Job 15:18-35
17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23 He wandereth… Read the whole commentary →