Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.
Job 31:40 - Revised Version 1885 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. Common English Bible may briars grow instead of wheat, poisonous weeds instead of barley. Job’s words are complete. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley. |
Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.
Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man:
and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall even be for briers and thorns.
and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.