Job 15:32

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Esta se lhe consumar antes dos seus dias, e o seu ramo no reverdecer.

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A Biblia Sagrada
Antes do seu dia ela se consumar; e o seu ramo no reverdecer.

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Antes do seu dia ela se consumar; e o seu ramo no reverdecer.

Bible Verse Review
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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.