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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16 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."
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12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.