Verse 40

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:17-18 : 17 Then to Adam He said, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the herb of the field;
  • Ps 72:20 : 20 The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.
  • Isa 7:23 : 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
  • Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even a breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
  • Mal 1:3 : 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.