Job 15:32
It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
World English Bible Classic
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 emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
33He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
Cross References
Job 8:16He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
Job 18:16His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
Psalms 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
Proverbs 10:27The fear of the LORD prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Isaiah 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
Hosea 9:16Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones 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 →