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He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vineEither the wicked man himself shall shake off or lose his substance; …
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable, from which he would infer that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore that Jo…
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13th Century
Catholic
After Eliphaz shows the anxieties and fear the wicked man suffers even in a state of prosperity, he now speaks about the bitter things that consume…
