Bible Strands
Job 15:33
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — In Job 15, the speaker addresses a man claiming wisdom, describing the premature ruin of the wicked before declaring the company of the godless barren.
The words — The text uses כַּ/גֶּ֣פֶן (ka./Ge.fen) = like <the>/ vine and נִצָּתֽ/וֹ (ni.tza.T/o) = blossom/ his to depict sudden, unproductive loss.
The thread — Deuteronomy 28:39 describes planted vineyards yielding nothing because worms eat the grapes. Revelation 6:13 compares falling stars to unripe figs dropped from a shaken tree. Isaiah 33:9 records that Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
Why it lands — The passage demands recognition that fruitless labor and premature loss are the direct results of living apart from divine order.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 28:39 You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
- Isaiah 33:9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
- Revelation 6:13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.