Job 31:40
let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 3:17-18 : 17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
- Ps 72:20 : 20 This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse. BOOK III A Psalm by Asaph.
- Isa 7:23 : 23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
- Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
- Mal 1:3 : 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
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17The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
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3Then Job answered Yahweh,
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31The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
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6Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
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17So Job died, being old and full of days. BOOK I
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12So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
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40As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
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7It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
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31Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.
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13They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
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9What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.
10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
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17For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
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12For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
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1"However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
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16His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.
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20Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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13"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
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25The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.
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4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
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3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
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38You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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16Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."
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12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.