Job 15:32
It is not completed in his day, || And his bending branch is not green.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
In Context
31Do not let him put credence in vanity, || He has been deceived, || For vanity is his exchange.
33He shakes off his unripe fruit as a vine, || And casts off his blossom as an olive.
Cross References
Job 8:16He [is] green before the sun, || And over his garden his branch goes out.
Job 18:16From beneath his roots are dried up, || And from above his crop is cut off.
Psalms 52:5Also—God breaks you down forever, || Takes you, and pulls you out of the tent, || And He has uprooted you || Out of the land of the living. Selah.
Proverbs 10:27The fear of YHWH adds days, || And the years of the wicked are shortened.
Isaiah 27:11In the withering of its branch it is broken off, || Women are coming in [and] setting it on fire, || For it [is] not a people of understanding, || Therefore its Maker does not pity it, || And its Former does not favor it.
Hosea 9:16Ephraim has been struck, || Their root has dried up, they do not yield fruit, || Indeed, though they bring forth, || I have put to death the desired 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 →