Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 15:32

"It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green." — Job 15:32 (ASV)

It shall be accomplished. —That is, paid in full before its time.

The remainder of this chapter calls for little explanation. In it, the speaker only repeats the orthodox and familiar saying that the wicked are punished in life and, therefore, by implication, the good are rewarded: a maxim which fails utterly in the face of afflictions like those of Job, unless, as his friends insinuated, he was one of the wicked.

After stating the doom of the ungodly, Eliphaz, in the last verse, sums up the character of those he has been denouncing. Not only are they evil in themselves, but they hatch evil; but it is evil that recoils on themselves.