Job 31:40
let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
World English Bible Catholic
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 its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
Cross References
Genesis 3:17To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
Job 31:22then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
Isaiah 7:23It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be for briers and thorns.
Malachi 1:3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
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 →