Job 31:40
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Updated King James Version
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 3:17And unto Adam he said, Because you have hearkened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life;
Job 31:22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
Isaiah 7:23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver coins, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
Malachi 1:3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons 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 →