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New King James Version

Job 15:32

It will be accomplished before his time, And his branch will not be green.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Wickedness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eliphaz;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Branch;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Reen;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Branch and Bough;   Color;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
It will be accomplished before his time,and his branch will not flourish.
Hebrew Names Version
It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.
King James Version
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
English Standard Version
It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
New Century Version
Their branches will dry up before they finish growing and will never turn green.
New English Translation
Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.
Amplified Bible
"It will be fulfilled while he still lives, And his branch will not be green [but shall wither away].
New American Standard Bible
"It will be accomplished before his time, And his palm branch will not be green.
World English Bible
It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.
Geneva Bible (1587)
His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.
Legacy Standard Bible
When his days are not yet fulfilled,And his palm branch is not green.
Berean Standard Bible
It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
Contemporary English Version
like a date palm tree without a leaf.
Complete Jewish Bible
This will be accomplished in advance of its day. His palm frond will not be fresh and green;
Darby Translation
It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.
Easy-to-Read Version
He will die before his time, like a tree whose top branches have already begun to die.
George Lamsa Translation
He shall dry up before his time, and the work of his hands shall not be found.
Good News Translation
Before their time is up they will wither, wither like a branch and never be green again.
Lexham English Bible
It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
Literal Translation
Before his day it shall be fulfilled, and his branch shall not be green;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He shall perish, afore his tyme be worne out, and his honde shal not be grene.
American Standard Version
It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.
Bible in Basic English
His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be leafy.
King James Version (1611)
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not bee greene.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He shal perishe afore his time be worne out, and his braunche shall not be greene.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.
English Revised Version
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bifor that hise daies ben fillid, he schal perische, and hise hondis schulen wexe drye;
Update Bible Version
It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.
Webster's Bible Translation
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
New Living Translation
They will be cut down in the prime of life; their branches will never again be green.
New Life Bible
It will be paid in full while he still lives, and his branch will not be green.
New Revised Standard
It will be paid in full before their time, and their branch will not be green.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Before his day, shall it be accomplished, with, his palm-top, not covered with leaves;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall wither away.
Revised Standard Version
It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
Young's Literal Translation
Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"It will be accomplished before his time, And his palm branch will not be green.

Contextual Overview

17 "I will tell you, hear me; What I have seen I will declare, 18 What wise men have told, Not hiding anything received from their fathers, 19 To whom alone the land was given, And no alien passed among them: 20 The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor. 21 Dreadful sounds are in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer comes upon him. 22 He does not believe that he will return from darkness, For a sword is waiting for him. 23 He wanders about for bread, saying, "Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24 Trouble and anguish make him afraid; They overpower him, like a king ready for battle. 25 For he stretches out his hand against God, And acts defiantly against the Almighty, 26 Running stubbornly against Him With his strong, embossed shield.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

accomplished: or, cut off, Job 22:16, Psalms 55:23, Ecclesiastes 7:17

and his branch: Job 8:16-19, Job 14:7-9, Job 18:16, Job 18:17, Psalms 52:5-8, Isaiah 27:11, Ezekiel 17:8-10, Hosea 9:16, Hosea 14:5-7, John 15:6

Reciprocal: Job 36:14 - They die Proverbs 10:27 - the years

Gill's Notes on the Bible

It shall be accomplished before his time, Either the recompence or reward of his trusting vanity, in vain persons or things, the punishment of such a trust, the sorrows and troubles following upon it; these shall come upon the wicked man "before his day" f, as it may be rendered; before the day of his death, even before his old age; before the evil days come in a course of nature, and those years in which he has no pleasure: or his life, and the days of his life, "shall be filled up" g; or be at an end before his time; not before the time fixed in the decree and purpose of God, Job 14:5; but before his own time, that he and his friends thought he might have lived, and as his healthful constitution promised; or before the then common term of human life; and so the phrase is expressive or an immature death:

and his branch shall not be green; but dried up and wither away; his wealth and riches, his children and family, be utterly extinct; instead of being like a branch, green and flourishing, shall be like a dry stick, useless and unprofitable, only fit for burning; see Job 15:30.

f בלא יומו "ante diem suam", Vatablus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator. g תמלא "complebitur", Montanus "implebitur", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It shall be accomplished before his time - Margin, “cut off.” The image here is that of a tree, which had been suggested in Job 15:30. Here it is followed up by various illustrations drawn from the flower, the fruit, etc., all of which are designed to denote the same thing - that a wicked man will not be permanently prosperous; he will not live and flourish as he would if he were righteous. He will be like a tree that is cut down before its proper time, or that casts its flowers and fruits and brings nothing to perfection. The phrase here literally is, “It shall not be filled up in its time;” that is, a wicked man will be cut off before he has filled up the measure of his days, like a tree that decays and falls before its proper time. A similar idea occurs in Psalms 55:23. “Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days.” As a general fact this is all true, and the observation of the ancient Idumeans was correct. The temperate live longer than the intemperate; the chaste longer than the licentious; he that controls and governs his passions longer than he who gives the reins to them; and he who leads a life of honesty and virtue longer than he who lives for crime. Pure religion makes a man temperate, sober, chaste, calm, dispassionate, and equable in his temper; saves from broils, contentions, and strifes; subdues the angry passions, and thus tends to lengthen out life.

His branch shall not be green - It shall be dried up and withered away - retaining the image of a tree.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 15:32. It shall be accomplished before his time — I believe the Vulgate gives the true sense: Antequam dies ejus impleantur, peribit; "He shall perish before his time; before his days are completed."

8. He shall be removed by a violent death, and not live out half his days.

9. And his branch shall not be green - there shall be no scion from his roots; all his posterity shall fail.


 
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