Job 31:40
Let thistles growe in steade of wheate, and cockle in the stead of Barley. The wordes of Iob are ended.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 3:17Also to Adam he said, Because thou hast obeyed the voyce of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eate of it) cursed is the earth for thy sake: in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life.
Job 31:22Let mine arme fal from my shoulder, and mine arme be broken from the bone.
Isaiah 7:23And at the same day euery place, wherein shalbe a thousand vines, shalbe at a thousand pieces of siluer: so it shalbe for the briers and for the thornes.
Malachi 1:3And I hated Esau, and made his mountaines wast, and his heritage a wildernes for dragons.
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 →