Job 31:40
then, may thistles spring forth for me instead of grain, and thorns instead of barley. (This ended the words of Job.)
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
In Context
39if I have used its fruits for nothing but money and have afflicted the souls of its tillers,
Cross References
Genesis 3:17Yet truly, to Adam, he said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, from which I instructed you that you should not eat, cursed is the land that you work. In hardship shall you eat from it, all the days of your life.
Job 31:22then may my shoulder fall from its joint, and may my arm, with all its bones, be broken.
Isaiah 7:23And this shall be in that day: every place, where there were a thousand grapevines worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers.
Malachi 1:3but held hatred for Esau? And I have set his mountains in solitude, and his inheritance with the serpents of the desert.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:34-40
Job's Protestation of His Integrity. ( b. c. 1520.) 33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: 34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as… Read the whole commentary →