Job 31:40

In 11 translations

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.cockle: or, noisome weeds

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.

LSV

Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, || And instead of barley a useless weed!” The words of Job are finished.

YLT

Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Let thistles growe in steade of wheate, and cockle in the stead of Barley. The wordes of Iob are ended.

JPS

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

LXXE

then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

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WLC

תַּ֤חַת חִטָּ֨ה ׀ יֵ֥צֵא ח֗וֹחַ וְתַֽחַת־שְׂעֹרָ֥ה בָאְשָׁ֑ה תַּ֝֗מּוּ דִּבְרֵ֥י אִיּֽוֹב׃

LXX-Br

Ἀντὶ πυροῦ ἄρα ἐξέλθοι μοι κνίδη, ἀντὶ δὲ κριθῆς βάτος. Καὶ ἐπαύσατο Ἰὼβ ῥήμασιν.

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• Isaiah 7:23And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
• Genesis 3:17–18And 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…
• Psalms 72:20Thus conclude the prayers of David son of Jesse.
• Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
• Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, 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…

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