33 He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
33 They'll be like fruit frost-killed before it ripens, like buds sheared off before they bloom.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape like a vine, And cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
33 They will be like a vine whose grapes are harvested too early, like an olive tree that loses its blossoms before the fruit can form.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 15:33
Commentary on Job 15:17-35
(Read 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 uncomfortably, and perish very miserably. Will the prosperity of presumptuous sinners end miserably as here described? Then let the mischiefs which befal others, be our warnings. Though no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby. No calamity, no trouble, however heavy, however severe, can rob a follower of the Lord of his favour. What shall separate him from the love of Christ?