comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.
Job 15:33 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They will shake off their unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off their blossoms, like the olive tree. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He shall fail to bring his grapes to maturity [leaving them to wither unnourished] on the vine and shall cast off blossoms [and fail to bring forth fruit] like the olive tree. American Standard Version (1901) He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree. Common English Bible like the vine, they will drop early grapes and cast off their blossoms like the olive. Catholic Public Domain Version He will be wounded like a grapevine, when its cluster is in first flower, and like an olive tree that casts off its flower. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first flower, and as an olive-tree that casteth its flower. |
comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.
The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.
The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree drops its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.