Job 31:40
Let wthistles grow instead of wheat, and 16*cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
w:
Genesis 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Isaiah 7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
16:
Or, noisome weeds.
*:
cockle-weeds.