Job 31:40
◄  Job 31:40  ►
New International Version (©2011)
then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

New Living Translation (©2007)
then let thistles grow on that land instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley." Job's words are ended.

English Standard Version (©2001)
let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Let briars grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
then let thorns grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are concluded.

International Standard Version (©2012)
may thorns spring up instead of wheat, and obnoxious weeds instead of barley." With this, Job's discourse with his friends is completed.

NET Bible (©2006)
then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!" The words of Job are ended.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
[then] let it grow thistles instead of wheat, and foul-smelling weeds instead of barley." This is the end of Job's words.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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

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

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley,.... This is an imprecation of Job's, in which he wishes that if what he had said was not true, or if he was guilty of the crimes he denied, that when and where he sowed wheat, thorns or thistles might come up instead of it, or tares, as some Jewish writers (d) interpret it; and that when and where he should sow barley, cockle, or darnel, or any "stinking" or "harmful" weed (e), as the word signifies, might spring up in room of it; respect seems to be had to the original curse upon the earth, and by the judgment of God is sometimes the case, that a fruitful land is turned into barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell in it, Genesis 3:18;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let thistles grow; - Genesis 3:18. Thistles are valueless; and Job is so confident of entire innocence in regard to this, that he says he would be willing, if he were guilty, to have his whole land overrun with noxious weeds.

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Let thistles grow instead of wheat - What the word חוח choach means, which we translate thistles, we cannot tell: but as חח chach seems to mean to hold, catch as a hook, to hitch, it must signify some kind of hooked thorn, like the brier; and this is possibly its meaning.

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Geneva Study Bible

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

(f) That is, the talk which he had with his three friends.

King James Translators' Notes

cockle: or, noisome weeds

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

40. thistles-or brambles, thorns.

cockle-literally, "noxious weeds."

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Job 31:40 Parallel Commentaries
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Job's Final Appeal
…38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; 39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Job 32:13 Do not say, 'We have found wisdom; let God, not a man, refute him.'
Isaiah 5:6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it."
Jeremiah 51:64 Then say, 'So will Babylon sink to rise no more because of the disaster I will bring on her. And her people will fall.'" The words of Jeremiah end here.