Job 15:32
It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
BSB
ASV
It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.
KJV
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Ver. 32. Before his days are fulfilled he shall perish, and his hands shall wither. The days foreordained to each individual by the Divine Prescience can neither be increased nor lessened, except it happen that they be so foreknown as either to be longer if they be accompanied with the most perfect works, or shorter with the most wicked, just as Hezekiah obtained increase of days by the bestowing of tears, and as it is written concerning the wicked, Death meets the undisciplined.
It shall be accomplished before his time - I believe the Vulgate gives the true sense: Antequam dies ejus impleantur, peribit; “He shall perish before his time; before his days are completed.” 8. He shall be removed by a violent death, and not live out half his days. 9. And his branch shall not be green - there shall be no scion from his roots; all his posterity shall fail.
Literally, "it (the tree to which he is compared, Job 15:30, or else his life) shall not be filled up in its time"; that is, "he shall be ended before his time." shall not be green--image from a withered tree; the childless extinction of the wicked.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Ecclesiastes 7:17Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
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The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
At that instant she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
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Psalms 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
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You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
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Hosea 9:16Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.
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Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
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Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.