Job 15:32
Even before his time will it be overfull, and his branches will not be green.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
In Context
31Let him that goeth astray not trust in vanity; for vanity will be what he obtaineth thereby.
33He will shake off like the vine his unripe grapes, and cast off like the olive his blossoms.
Cross References
Job 8:16He is in full vigor before the sun, and over his garden his shoots go forth.
Job 18:16Beneath, his roots will be dried up, and above will his boughs he cut away.
Psalms 52:5(52:7) [Therefore] God will also destroy thee for ever: he will take thee away, and pluck thee out of his tent, and root thee out of the land of life. Selah.—
Proverbs 10:27The fear of the Lord increaseth [man's] days; but the years of the wicked will be shortened.
Isaiah 27:11When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off; women will come and set them on fire; for it is not a people of understanding; therefore he that made it will not have mercy on it, and he that formed it will show it no favor.
Hosea 9:16Smitten is Ephraim, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they should bring forth, yet would I slay the beloved fruit of their body.
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 →