Job 15 · Verse 33

Job 15:33

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

Job 15:33, King James Version

Job 15:33 in other translations

BSB	He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
WEB	He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
ASV	He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
YLT	He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
DARBY	He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
BBE	He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.
Webster	He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

What does Job 15:33 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

33. Images of incompleteness. The loss of the unripe grapes is poetically made the vine tree's own act, in order to express more pointedly that the sinner's ruin is the fruit of his own conduct (Is 3:11; Jr 6:19).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 15:17-35

Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very…

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Job 15:33 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יַחְמֹ֣סyach.Moshe will wrongH2554

כַּגֶּ֣פֶןka.Ge.fenlike <the> vineH1612

בִּסְר֑וֹbis.Rounripe grape[s] hisH1154

וְיַשְׁלֵ֥ךְve.yash.Lekhand he will shedH7993

כַּ֝זַּ֗יִתka.Za.yitlike <the> olive treeH2132

נִצָּתֽוֹ\׃ni.tza.Toblossom hisH5328

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 15:33

Deuteronomy 28:39-40
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
Isaiah 33:9
The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Revelation 6:13
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

shake off.
Isa 33:9; Re 6:13
and.
De 28:39,40

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Job 15:32
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Job 15:33
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Job 15:34
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

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Job 15:33 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	El perderá su agraz como la vid, y derramará su flor como la oliva.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Il se défait, comme une vigne, de ses grappes vertes, et, comme un olivier, il rejette ses fleurs.
German Elberfelder 1871	Wie der Weinstock übt er Unbill an seinen unreifen Beeren, und wie der Olivenbaum wirft er seine Blüte ab.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Lædetur quasi vinea in primo flore botrus ejus, et quasi oliva projiciens florem suum.