Job 31:40

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!” The words of Job are ended.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:17-18 : 17 But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.
  • Ps 72:20 : 20 This collection of the prayers of David son of Jesse ends here.
  • Isa 7:23 : 23 At that time every place where there had been a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will be overrun with thorns and briers.
  • Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel,“be certain that Moab will become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah. They will be overrun by weeds, filled with salt pits, and permanently desolate. Those of my people who are left will plunder their belongings; those who are left in Judah will take possession of their land.”
  • Mal 1:3 : 3 and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.”

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