Job 15:33

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:39-40 : 39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms. 40 Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.
  • Isa 33:9 : 9 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.
  • Rev 6:13 : 13 And the stars of heaven were falling to the earth, like green fruit from a tree before the force of a great wind.

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  • 32 His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.

  • 5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • 16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

  • Hos 14:6-7
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    6 I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

    7 His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.

  • Job 8:15-17
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    15 He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

    16 He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.

    17 His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

  • 7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

  • 13 For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.

  • 6 But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

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    39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

    40 Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

  • 17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • 2 And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

  • Ezek 17:8-9
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    8 He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

    9 Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?

  • Job 15:29-30
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    29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

    30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

  • 16 You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

  • Ezek 17:5-6
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    5 And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

    6 And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.

  • 2 He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

  • 15 Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

  • 10 And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting.

  • 6 If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

  • 14 Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches:

  • 8 For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

  • 5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

  • 15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

  • Job 14:8-9
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    8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

    9 Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.

  • 34 For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.

  • Isa 1:29-30
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    29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

    30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

  • 6 In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

  • 6 For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem.

  • 12 The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

  • 12 But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.

  • 2 Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?

  • 13 But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.

  • 13 I will put an end to them completely, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry.

  • 13 But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees?

  • 9 And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.

  • 9 But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?

  • 33 He gave their vines and their fig-trees to destruction, and the trees of their land were broken down.

  • 9 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.

  • 12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • 19 Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire.

  • 41 They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.