Job 31:40 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴⁰ let thistles grow instead of wheat, and useless weed instead of barley.” The words of Iyoḇ 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.)

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁰ Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

Job 31:40 Cross References

Job 31:22

let my arm fall from my shoulder, and my arm be broken from the bone.

Job 32:13

Lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom’ – it is Ěl that drives him away, not man.

Psalm 72:20

The prayers of Dawiḏ the son of Yishai are ended.

Isaiah 5:6

and I lay it waste; it is not pruned or dug and thornbushes and weeds shall come up; and I command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Isaiah 7:23

And it shall be in that day, every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand sheqels of silver, let it be for thornbushes and weeds.

Jeremiah 51:64

and shall say, ‘So does Baḇel sink and not rise from the evil that I am bringing upon her, and they shall weary themselves.’ ” Thus far are the words of Yirmeyahu.

Zephaniah 2:9

“Therefore, as I live,” declares יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “Mo’aḇ shall be like Seḏom, and the children of Ammon like Amorah – a possession for weeds and a pit of salt, and a waste forever, the remnant of My people plunder them, and the rest of My nation possess them.”

Malachi 1:3

but I have hated Ěsaw, and have laid waste his mountains and his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.”