“He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.”
— WEB
Job 15:33
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“He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.”
— KJV
“He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.”
— ASV
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Commentary
Images of incompleteness. The loss of the unripe grapes is poetically made the vine tree's own act, in order to express more pointedly that the sinner's ruin is the fruit of his own conduct (Isa 3:11; Jer 6:19).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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