Job 31:40
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.”
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“then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 31:40 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
- Job 31:22then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.
- Psalms 72:20Thus conclude the prayers of David son of Jesse.
- Isaiah 7:23And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
- Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
- Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
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