Job 15:33

Verse

Berean Standard Bible

He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

American Standard Version (1901)

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.

Bible in Basic English

He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

Free Bible Version

like vines that lose their unripe grapes, or olive trees that lose their flowers.

King James (Authorized) Version

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

Translation for Translators

They will be like [SIM] vines whose grapes fall off before they are ripe, like olive trees whose blossoms fall off before they produce any fruit.

Unlocked Literal Bible

He will drop his unripe grapes like a grapevine; he will cast off his flowers like the olive tree.

Noah Webster Bible

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

World English Bible

He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.

Young's Literal Translation

He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.

Context

Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God

³²It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish. ³³He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms. ³⁴For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

Summary

In this verse, Eliphaz, one of Job's friends, uses the analogy of a vineyard to describe the fate of the wicked. Just as a vineyard that has not been tended properly will produce sour grapes, so too will the wicked face bitter consequences for their actions. Eliphaz is warning Job that those who reject God's ways and live in sin will ultimately reap what they have sown, facing judgment and destruction. This verse serves as a reminder of the importance of living in alignment with God's will and the consequences of choosing a path of disobedience.

Commentary

Adam Clarke
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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.

John Gill Bible Commentary

For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate,.... Hypocrites are such who seem to and would be thought to be, what they are not; they are outwardly righteous before men, but inwardly very wicked; have a form of godliness, but are destitute the power of it, Ti2 3:5; pretend to much religion, and to be worshippers of God, when it is only in outward appearances, and not in reality and sincerity: and such as these have been in the congregations of the righteous, in all ages; but here Eliphaz speaks of a congregation of them, a society, a family of them; and very probably has his eye upon Job's, and would represent hereby that he, the head of his family, and his children, when living, and his servants and associates, were all hypocrites, and now become desolate, reduced to want and poverty, and in distressed circumstances: or were "solitary" (i) and alone, as the word is rendered in Job 3:7; destitute of friends, and of the comforts of life; and perhaps reference may be had to the future state of such, when they shall aloud be bid to depart from God, have no society with angels and saints, but shall have their portion with those of the same character with them, hypocrites, in the highest degree of torment and misery, Mat 24:51; and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery; either such tents, or houses, as were built with money taken as bribes; see Hab 2:12; or where such who received bribes dwelt; unjust judges, who took a gift that blinds the eyes, to pervert justice. Job is afterwards by Eliphaz represented as if he was an oppressor, a wicked magistrate, and guilty of such like crimes as here pointed at, Job 22:6; and the "fire" said to consume the dwelling places of such may be understood either of material fire, such as came down from heaven, and destroyed Job's sheep, Job 1:16; or figuratively, the wrath of God often compared to fire, which would appear in one way or another, to the utter ruin of such persons, their habitations, and those that dwelt in them. "solitarium", Montanus; and to the same sense Vatablus, Beza, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Cocceius.

Job 15:33

Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God

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Commentary

Berean Standard Bible

He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

American Standard Version (1901)

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.

Bible in Basic English

He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

Free Bible Version

like vines that lose their unripe grapes, or olive trees that lose their flowers.

King James (Authorized) Version

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

Translation for Translators

They will be like [SIM] vines whose grapes fall off before they are ripe, like olive trees whose blossoms fall off before they produce any fruit.

Unlocked Literal Bible

He will drop his unripe grapes like a grapevine; he will cast off his flowers like the olive tree.

Noah Webster Bible

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

World English Bible

He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.

Young's Literal Translation

He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.

Adam Clarke
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Job 15:33

Verse

Context

Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God

Summary

Commentary

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Job 15:33

Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary