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Job 15:33
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He will be like a vine that drops its unripe grapesand like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
They will be like a vine whose grapes are pulled off before they are ripe, like an olive tree that loses its blossoms.
Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.
"He will fail to bring his grapes to maturity [leaving them to wither unnourished] on the vine, And will cast off blossoms [and fail to bring forth fruit] like the olive tree.
"He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine, And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.
God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.
He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
Or like vineyards or orchards whose blossoms and unripe fruit drop to the ground.
he will be like a vine that sheds its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that drops its flowers.
He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
He will be like a vine that loses its grapes before they ripen. He will be like an olive tree that loses its buds.
He shall shake off his unripe grapes, as the vine, and shall cast off his flowers as the olive tree.
"He will shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, and he will cast off his blossom like the olive tree;
he shall shake off its unripe grape as the vine; and he shall cast its flower like the olive.
He shalbe pluckte of as an vntymely grape from ye vyne, and shal let his floure fall, as the olyue doth.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
He shal shake off his vnripe grape as the Uine, and shall cast off his flowre as the Oliue.
He shalbe plucked of as an vntimely grape from the vine, and shall let his floure fall as the oliue doth.
And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
he schal be hirt as a vyne in the firste flour of his grape, and as an olyue tre castinge awei his flour.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
He will shake off his unripe grape like a vine, And cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
They will be like a vine whose grapes are harvested too early, like an olive tree that loses its blossoms before the fruit can form.
He will be like the vine that drops off its grapes before they are ready. And he will throw off his flower like the olive tree.
They will shake off their unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off their blossoms, like the olive tree.
He shall wrong - like a vine - his sour grapes, and shall cast off - as an olive-tree - his blossom.
He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first flower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower.
He will shake off his unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off his blossom, like the olive tree.
He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
"He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine, And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shake off: Isaiah 33:9, Revelation 6:13
and: Deuteronomy 28:39, Deuteronomy 28:40
Reciprocal: Proverbs 10:27 - the years Ecclesiastes 7:17 - why
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,.... Either the wicked man himself shall shake off or lose his substance; or God shall shake off from him all that was dear and valuable to him; or he shall be shaken by one providence or another, just as a vine is shaken by a violent wind and tempest, and its unripe grapes are battered off by an hailstorm, or plucked off by the hand, or drop off through rottenness; so it is signified by this metaphor, that a wicked man should be stripped of his wealth and riches in a sudden manner; or his children should be snatched from him in their youth, before they were well grown up to maturity, and so like the unripe grape; perhaps respect is had to Job's case, both with regard to his substance and his family:
and shall cast off his flower, as the olive: which tree, when shaken in a violent manner, drops its flower, and so brings forth no fruit; it is observed by naturalists h, that these two trees, the vine and the olive, flourish much about the same time, and suffer much by storms and tempests, which destroy their fruits, and especially when rain falls in the time of their flowering; the some thing is intended in this clause as in the former.
h Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 16. c. 25. l. 17. c. 2. 24.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine - The idea here is, that the wicked man shall be like a vine that casts off its grapes while they are yet sour and green, and brings none to perfection; compare the notes at Isaiah 18:5. Scott renders this,
“As when the vine her half-grown berries showers,
Or poisoned olive her unfolding flowers.”
It would seem from this passage that the vine might be so blasted by a hot wind or other cause, as to cast its unripe grapes to the earth. The employment of a figure of this kind to illustrate an idea supposes that such a case was familiar to those who were addressed. It is well known that in the East the grape and the olive might be blasted while in blossom, or when the fruit was setting, as all fruit may be. The injury is usually done in the flower, or when the fruit is just forming. Yet our observations of the effects of the burning winds that pass over the deserts on fruit that is half formed, in blasting it and causing it to fall, are too limited to allow us to come to any definite conclusion in regard to such effects in general. Anyone, however, can see the beauty of this image. The plans and purposes of wicked people are immature. Nothing is carried to perfection. They are cut off, their plans are blasted, and all the results of their living are like the sour, hard, crabbed, and useless fruit that falls from the tree before it is ripe. The results of the life of the righteous, on the other hand, are like a tree loaded with ripe and mellow fruit - their plans are brought to maturity, and resemble the rich and heavy clusters of grapes, or the abundant fruits of the olive when ripe.
And shall cast off his flower as the olive - The olive is a well-known tree that abounds in the East. The fruit is chiefly valuable for the oil which it produces; compare the notes at Romans 11:17. The olive is liable to be blasted while the fruit is setting, or while the tree is in blossom. In Greece, a northeast wind often proves destructive to the olive, and the same may be true of other places. Dr. Chandler speaking of Greece, says, “The olive groves are now, as anciently, a principal source of the riches of Athens. The crops had failed five years successively when we arrived; the cause assigned was a northerly wind, called Greco-tramontane, which destroyed the flower. The fruit is set in about a fortnight, when the apprehension from this unpropitious quarter ceases. The bloom in the following year was unhurt, and we had the pleasure of leaving the Athenians happy in the prospect of a plentiful harvest.” A wicked man is here elegantly compared with such a tree that casts its flowers and produces no fruit.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 15:33. He shall shake off his unripe grape —
10. Whatever children he may have, they shall never survive him, nor come to mature age. They shall be like wind-fall grapes and blasted olive blossoms. As the vine and olive, which are among the most useful trees, affording wine and oil, so necessary for the worship of God and the comfort of man, are mentioned here, they may be intended to refer to the hopeful progeny of the oppressor; but who fell, like the untimely grape or the blasted olive flower, without having the opportunity of realizing the public expectation.
