Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
⛓ Read Job 32 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Elihu's 'my belly is as wine which has no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles' is the closest OT parallel to the new-wine-bursting-old-skins parable. Shared imagery of new wine straining fresh versus old skins gives notable volume to the figure.
Medium confidence'My belly is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.' Elihu's image is the closest scriptural antecedent to Jesus' new-wine/bursting-old-skins saying, supplying the very mechanics (new wine, skins ready to burst) of the metaphor.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"My belly is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins ready to burst" is the closest OT image to Jesus' new-wine/old-skins parable (v.22). The shared bursting-new-wineskins picture gives a sapiential source for the figure, though Jesus applies it to the incompatibility of the new order with the old. Marked low.
Low confidence