Genesis 3:18

Thornbushes and thistle plants and other weeds will grow and prevent what you have planted from growing. And for food, you will have to eat things that just grow in your fields.

Translation for Translators

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

17Then Yahweh said to the man, “You heeded what your wife said, and you ate some of the fruit of the tree concerning which I commanded you saying, ‘Do not eat it.’ So I will make it difficult to grow things in the ground because of what you did. You will have to work hard as long as you live to produce things from the ground to eat.

19All your life you will sweat as you work hard to produce food to eat. Then you will die [EUP], and your body will be buried in the ground. I made you from soil, so when you die and are buried your body will decay and become soil again.”

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Cross References

Job 1:21He said, “When I was born, I had no clothes on. When I die, I will not take any clothes with me. Yahweh gave me everything that I possessed, and now he has taken it all away. But ◄we should/I will► always praise Yahweh anyway! [MTY]”

Job 31:40then I wish/desire that thorns would grow in my fields instead of wheat. May bad weeds grow instead of barley!” That is the end of what Job said to his three friends.

Psalms 104:2You created/caused light to be like your robe [MET]. You spread out the sky like a man sets up a tent.

Proverbs 22:5Because of the things that wicked people do, they have difficulties/troubles that will be like thorns and traps on the roads that they walk on [MET]; people who are careful/cautious will be able to stay away from those difficulties.

Isaiah 5:6I will cause it to become a wasteland where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed. It will be a place where briers and thorns [DOU] grow. And I will command that no rain will fall on it.”

Isaiah 7:24There will be only briers and thorns in the entire land, and wild animals, with the result that men will take their bows and arrows and go there to hunt and kill animals.

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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