Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
New American Standard Bible
And you will eat the
King James Version
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Holman Bible
and you will eat the plants of the field.
International Standard Version
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you'll eat the plants from the meadows.
A Conservative Version
Also, thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to thee, and thou shall eat the herb of the field.
American Standard Version
thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Amplified
“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you shall eat the plants of the field.
Bible in Basic English
Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;
Darby Translation
and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
Julia Smith Translation
And thorns and weeds shall it cause to sprout forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the green herb of the field.
King James 2000
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field;
Lexham Expanded Bible
And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.
Modern King James verseion
It shall also bring forth thorns and thistles to you, and you shall eat the herb of the field.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and it shall bear thorns and thistles unto thee. And thou shalt eat the herbs of the field:
NET Bible
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.
The Emphasized Bible
Thorn also and thistle, shall it shoot forth to thee, - when thou hast come to eat of the herb of the field:
Webster
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
World English Bible
Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
Youngs Literal Translation
and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;
Themes
Afflictions » Consequent upon the fall
Agriculture » Foes of » Made difficult by sin
Agriculture or husbandry » Rendered laborious by the curse on the earth
Curse » Denounced » Against adam and eve
Curse » Denounced » Against the ground
natural Life » Forfeited by sin
Man » Punished for disobedience
Sin » How sin entered into the world
Sin » The ground was cursed on account of
Interlinear
Tsamach
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 3:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Pronounces Judgment
17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, 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 toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
Cross References
Joshua 23:13
know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
Job 1:21
He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD."
Job 5:5
whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
Job 31:40
let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
Psalm 90:3
You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."
Psalm 104:2
He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
Psalm 104:14-15
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.
Proverbs 24:31
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
Isaiah 5:6
I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
Isaiah 7:23
It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
Isaiah 32:13
Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Jeremiah 4:3
For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.
Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Matthew 13:7
Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Romans 14:2
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
Hebrews 6:8
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.