Job 15:32

32 This will be accomplished in advance of its day. His palm frond will not be fresh and green;

Job 15:32 Meaning and Commentary

Job 15:32

It shall be accomplished before his time,
Either the recompence or reward of his trusting vanity, in vain persons or things, the punishment of such a trust, the sorrows and troubles following upon it; these shall come upon the wicked man "before his day" ^F6, as it may be rendered; before the day of his death, even before his old age; before the evil days come in a course of nature, and those years in which he has no pleasure: or his life, and the days of his life, "shall be filled up" ^F7; or be at an end before his time; not before the time fixed in the decree and purpose of God, ( Job 14:5 ) ; but before his own time, that he and his friends thought he might have lived, and as his healthful constitution promised; or before the then common term of human life; and so the phrase is expressive or an immature death:

and his branch shall not be green;
but dried up and wither away; his wealth and riches, his children and family, be utterly extinct; instead of being like a branch, green and flourishing, shall be like a dry stick, useless and unprofitable, only fit for burning; see ( Job 15:30 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (wmwy alb) "ante diem suam", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
F7 (almt) "complebitur", Montanus; "implebitur", Schultens.

Job 15:32 In-Context

30 "He will not escape from darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. By a breath from the mouth of [God], he will go away.

31 Let him not rely on futile methods, thereby deceiving himself; for what he will receive in exchange will be only futility.

32 This will be accomplished in advance of its day. His palm frond will not be fresh and green;

33 he will be like a vine that sheds its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that drops its flowers.

34 "For the community of the ungodly is sterile; fire consumes the tents of bribery.