Job 31:40
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Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

2 Kings 14:9 And Joas, king of Israel, sent again to Amasias, king of Juda, saying: A thistle of Libanus sent to a cedar tree, which is in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the beasts of the forest, that are in Libanus, passed, and trod down the thistle.

Genesis 3:17,18 And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. . . .

Isaiah 7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of silver, shall become thorns and briers.

Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the dryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the remnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.

Malachi 1:3 But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.

cockle.

Psalm 72:20 The praises of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof: 40Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.
Cross References
Job 32:13
Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him down, not man.

Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

Jeremiah 51:64
And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Lexicon
then let briers
ח֗וֹחַ (ḥō·w·aḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2336: Briar, bramble, hook, ring, fetter

grow
יֵ֥צֵא (yê·ṣê)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

instead of
תַּ֤חַת (ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

wheat
חִטָּ֨ה ׀ (ḥiṭ·ṭāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2406: Wheat

and stinkweed
בָאְשָׁ֑ה (ḇā·’ə·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 890: Stink-weed, any other noxious, useless plant

instead of
וְתַֽחַת־ (wə·ṯa·ḥaṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

barley.”
שְׂעֹרָ֥ה (śə·‘ō·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8184: Barley

Thus conclude
תַּ֝֗מּוּ (tam·mū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8552: To be complete or finished

the words
דִּבְרֵ֥י (diḇ·rê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

of Job.
אִיּֽוֹב׃ (’î·yō·wḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 347: Job -- a patriarch


Additional Translations
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.
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