Job 15:32
It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.
Darby Translation
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: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;
33He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
Cross References
Job 8:16He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
Job 18:16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
Psalms 52:5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Proverbs 10:27The fear of Jehovah prolongeth days; but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Isaiah 27:11When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come [and] set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour.
Hosea 9:16Ephraim is smitten: their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they should bring forth, yet will I slay 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 →