Job 31:40
Let thorns grow up instead of wheat, And noxious weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Noyes Bible
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 eaten of its fruits without payment, And wrung out the life of its owners,
Cross References
Job 31:22Then may my shoulder fill from its blade, And my fore-arm be broken from its bone!
Isaiah 7:23And it shall come to pass in that day, That every place where stood a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, Shall be covered with briers and thorns.
Malachi 1:3And Esau I hated; And I made his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance to be habitations 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 →