Job 15:32
Before his time is completed, he will pass into ruin and his hands will wither away.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
In Context
31He will not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he could be redeemed at any price.
Cross References
Job 8:16He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth.
Job 18:16Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.
Psalms 52:5Will they never learn: all those who work iniquity, who devour my people like a meal of bread?
Proverbs 10:27The fear of the Lord adds days. And the years of the impious will be shortened.
Isaiah 27:11Its harvest will be crushed by dryness. Women will arrive and teach it, for it is not a wise people. Because of this, he who made it will not take pity on it, and he who formed it will not spare it.
Hosea 9:16Ephraim has been struck; their root has been dried out: by no means will they yield fruit. And even if they should conceive, I will execute the most beloved 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 →