It shall be accomplished before his time, Either the recompence or reward of his trusting vanity, in vain persons or things, the punishment of such a trust, the sorrows and troubles following upon it; these shall come upon the wicked man "before his day" , as it may be rendered; before the day of his death, even before his old age; before the evil days come in a course of nature, and those years in which he has no pleasure: or his life, and the days of his life, "shall be filled up" ; or be at an end before his time; not before the time fixed in the decree and purpose of God
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Job 15:32
Job 15:32
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is
that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would…Job 15:32Job 15:32 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgeaccomplished: or, cut off, Job 22:16; Psalms 55:23; Ecclesiastes 7:17
and his branch: Job 8:16-19, Job 14:7-9, Job 18:16-17; Psalms 52:5-8; Isaiah 27:11; Ezekiel 17:8-10; Hosea 9:16, Hosea 14:5-7; John 15:6