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Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God

Job 15:33

In 11 translations

BSB
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
KJV
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
WEB
He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
ASV
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
LSV
He shakes off his unripe fruit as a vine, || And casts off his blossom as an olive.
YLT
He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
DBY
He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
DRC
He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first flower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower.
GNV
God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.
JPS
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
LXXE
And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יַחְמֹ֣ס כַּגֶּ֣פֶן בִּסְר֑וֹ וְיַשְׁלֵ֥ךְ כַּ֝זַּ֗יִת נִצָּתֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
Τρυγηθείη δὲ ὡς ὄμφαξ πρὸ ὥρας, ἐκπέσοι δὲ ὡς ἄνθος ἐλαίας.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
  • Deuteronomy 28:39–40You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil,…
  • Revelation 6:13and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.

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