Job 31:40

then let thorns grow instead of wheat
and stinkweed instead of barley.


The words of Job are concluded.

Genesis 3:17-18

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

Psalm 72:20

The prayers of David son of Jesse are concluded.

Isaiah 7:23

And on that day
every place where there were 1,000 vines,
worth 1,000 pieces of silver,
will become thorns and briers.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live—
this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Israel—
Moab will be like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah
a place overgrown with weeds,
a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.
The remnant of My people will plunder them;
the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.

Malachi 1:3

but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Thistles

Genesis 3:17
And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.
Isaiah 7:23
And on that day
every place where there were 1,000 vines,
worth 1,000 pieces of silver,
will become thorns and briers.
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live—
this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Israel—
Moab will be like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah
a place overgrown with weeds,
a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.
The remnant of My people will plunder them;
the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.
Malachi 1:3
but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

The

Psalm 72:20
The prayers of David son of Jesse are concluded.

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