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Job 31:40

Job

38 if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

39 if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
KJV
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
WEB
let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
ASV
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
DARBY
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
BLB
[then] in place of the wheat let a thorn come forth, and weeds in place of barley.” The words of Job have ended.
ÅB
gid det da må vokse torner på min åker istedenfor hvete og ugress istedenfor bygg! Her ender Jobs ord.
[^1]: 2MO 11, 5.
[^2]: enken, JBS 31, 16.
[^3]: så jeg gjorde meg skyldig i avgudsdyrkelse.
[^4]: mitt underskrevne innlegg i saken.
OTB
Måtte torner vokse i stedet for hvete,
Og ugress i stedet for bygg.»
Jobs ord er avsluttet.
B1930
gid det da må vokse torner på min aker istedenfor hvete og ugress istedenfor bygg! Her ender Jobs ord.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Genesis 3:17–18

    And 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.

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  • Malachi 1:3

    but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

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  • Psalms 72:20

    Thus conclude the prayers of David son of Jesse.

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  • Isaiah 7:23

    And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

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  • Zephaniah 2:9

    Therefore, 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.”

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