Genesis 3:18

It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will have to eat wild plants.

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In The King James Version

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

In Context

17He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.

19You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”

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Cross References

Job 1:21“I was naked when I came out of my mother's womb, and I shall be naked when I leave,” he said. “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. May the Lord's name be honored.”

Job 31:40then let thorns grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Psalms 104:2You wear light as your clothing; you stretch out the fabric of the heavens.

Proverbs 22:5Thorns and traps lie in the path of crooked people; those who value their lives will stay away from them.

Isaiah 5:6I'll turn it into a wasteland. It won't be pruned or weeded—it will be overgrown with brambles and thorns. I'll order the clouds not to rain on it.”

Isaiah 7:24People will go hunting there with bows and arrows because the land will be covered with brambles and thorns.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:18-20

Sentence Passed on Adam; Consequences of the Fall. ( b. c. 4004.) 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for… Read the whole commentary →

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