Job 15:32

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

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  • Eccl 7:17 : 17 Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool; otherwise you might die before your time.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?
  • Ps 55:23 : 23 But you, O God, will bring them down to the deep Pit. Violent and deceitful people will not live even half a normal lifespan. But as for me, I trust in you.
  • Ps 52:5-8 : 5 Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah) 6 When the godly see this, they will be filled with awe, and will mock the evildoer, saying: 7 “Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.” 8 But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; I continually trust in God’s loyal love.
  • Job 8:16-19 : 16 He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden. 17 It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones. 18 If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying,‘I have never seen you!’ 19 Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.
  • Job 14:7-9 : 7 The Inevitability of Death“But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. 8 Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil, 9 at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.
  • Job 18:16-17 : 16 Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above. 17 His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
  • Ezek 17:8-9 : 8 In a good field, by abundant waters, it was planted to grow branches, bear fruit, and become a beautiful vine. 9 “‘Say to them: This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Will it prosper? Will he not rip out its roots and cause its fruit to rot and wither? All its foliage will wither. No strong arm or large army will be needed to pull it out by its roots. 10 Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper? Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it? Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”
  • Hos 9:16 : 16 Ephraim will be struck down– their root will be dried up; they will not yield any fruit. Even if they do bear children, I will kill their precious offspring.
  • Hos 14:5-7 : 5 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon. 6 His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon. 7 People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.
  • John 15:6 : 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 33 Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.

  • Job 18:16-17
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    82%

    16 Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

    17 His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

  • Job 8:15-17
    3 verses
    80%

    15 He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

    16 He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

    17 It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

  • Job 15:29-31
    3 verses
    78%

    29 He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

    30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

    31 Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.

  • 12 While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

  • 5 For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

  • Job 14:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7 The Inevitability of Death“But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

    8 Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,

    9 at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.

  • Ezek 17:8-10
    3 verses
    74%

    8 In a good field, by abundant waters, it was planted to grow branches, bear fruit, and become a beautiful vine.

    9 “‘Say to them: This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Will it prosper? Will he not rip out its roots and cause its fruit to rot and wither? All its foliage will wither. No strong arm or large army will be needed to pull it out by its roots.

    10 Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper? Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it? Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”

  • 8 They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.

  • 2 For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.

  • 6 His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

  • Isa 1:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29 Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.

    30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered.

  • 35 I have seen ruthless evil men growing in influence, like a green tree grows in its native soil.

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    12 Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land have departed from its shade and left it.

    13 On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals will walk on its branches.

    14 For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; they will be among mere mortals, with those who descend to the Pit.

  • 28 The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

  • 14 They bear fruit even when they are old; they are filled with vitality and have many leaves.

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    3 He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.

  • 7 They have destroyed my vines; they have turned my fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown it aside; the twigs are stripped bare.

  • 17 When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • Ps 80:15-16
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    71%

    15 the root your right hand planted, the shoot you made to grow!

    16 It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.

  • 2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • 20 Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

  • 4 The withering flower, its beautiful splendor, situated at the head of a rich valley, will be like an early fig before harvest– as soon as someone notices it, he grabs it and swallows it.

  • 9 I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

  • 32 And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

  • 2 “Son of man, of all the woody branches among the trees of the forest, what happens to the wood of the vine?

  • 6 The time is coming when Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce will fill the surface of the world.

  • 6 It sprouted and became a vine, spreading low to the ground; its branches turning toward him, its roots were under itself. So it became a vine; it produced shoots and sent out branches.

  • 40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.

  • 9 Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.

  • Dan 4:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14 He called out loudly as follows:‘Chop down the tree and lop off its branches! Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit! Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches!

    15 But leave its taproot in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with the animals in the grass of the land.

  • 24 Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

  • 32 The Parable of the Fig Tree“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

  • 7 which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

  • 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

  • 19 After noticing a fig tree by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it,“Never again will there be fruit from you!” And the fig tree withered at once.