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Job 31:40
Job 31:40 is verse 40 of Job chapter 31, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
King James Version
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
World English Bible
let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
Read in context
Job 31:38–40 · Berean Standard Bible
38 if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
39 if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
40 then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 3:17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Isaiah 7:23And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
Psalms 72:20Thus conclude the prayers of David son of Jesse.