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A Picture of a Failed Life
Commentators explain the verse's powerful imagery: a wicked person's life is like a vine that loses its sour grapes or an olive tree that drops its flowers before fruiting. This illustrates a life cut short, whose plans are blasted and never reach maturity or produce anything of lasting value.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 15:33
18th Century
Theologian
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine - The idea here is that the wicked man will be like a vine that casts off its grape…
John Gill
On Job 15:33
17th Century
Pastor
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine
Either the wicked man himself shall shake off or lose his substance; …
Matthew Henry
On Job 15:17–35
17th Century
Minister
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable, from which he would infer that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore that Jo…