Job 31:40 - New Revised Standard Version

⁴⁰ let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ Let thistles grow instead of wheat and cockleburs instead of barley. The [controversial] words of Job [with his friends] are ended.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ may briars grow instead of wheat, poisonous weeds instead of barley. Job’s words are complete.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ then, may thistles spring forth for me instead of grain, and thorns instead of barley. (This ended the words of Job.)

Job 31:40 Cross References

Job 31:22

then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.

Job 32:13

Yet do not say, ‘We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a human.’

Psalm 72:20

The prayers of David son of Jesse are ended.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 7:23

On that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 51:64

and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disasters that I am bringing on her.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.

Malachi 1:3

but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.