Genesis 3:18
“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you shall eat the plants of the field.
Joshua 23:13
know and understand with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
Job 1:21
He said,
And naked I will return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Job 5:5
“The hungry devour his harvest
And take it even [when it grows] among the thorns;
The trap opens for [his] wealth.
Job 31:40
Let thorns grow instead of wheat,
And stinkweed and cockleburs instead of barley.”
So the words of Job [with his friends] are finished.
Psalm 90:3
You turn man back to dust,
And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”
Psalm 104:2
[You are the One] who covers Yourself with light as with a garment,
Who stretches out the heavens like a tent curtain,
Psalm 104:14-15
He causes grass to grow for the cattle,
And all that the earth produces for cultivation by man,
So that he may bring food from the earth—
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate [for their lack of honor and their wrong-doing traps them];
He who guards himself [with godly wisdom] will be far from them and avoid the consequences they suffer.
Proverbs 24:31
And, behold, it was all overgrown with thorns,
And nettles were covering its surface,
And its stone wall was broken down.
Isaiah 5:6
“I will turn it into a wasteland;
It will not be pruned or cultivated,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”
Isaiah 7:23
And it will come to pass in that day, in every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be briars and thorns.
Isaiah 32:13
For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briars—
Yes, [mourn] for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Jeremiah 4:3
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
And do not sow among thorns.
Jeremiah 12:13
“They have planted wheat but have reaped thorns;
They have exhausted themselves but without profit.
So be ashamed of your harvest
Because of the fierce and raging anger of the Lord.”
Matthew 13:7
Romans 14:2
One man’s faith permits him to eat everything, while the weak believer eats only vegetables [to avoid eating ritually unclean meat or something previously considered unclean].
Hebrews 6:8
but if it persistently produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.
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And naked I will return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
You turn man back to dust,
And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”
[You are the One] who covers Yourself with light as with a garment,
Who stretches out the heavens like a tent curtain,