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The words of Job are ended. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/job/31-40.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/job/31-40.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/job/31-40.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/job/1.htm">Job</a> > <a href="/gntd/job/31.htm">Chapter 31</a> > Verse 40</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/31-39.htm" title="Job 31:39">◄</a> Job 31:40 <a href="../job/32-1.htm" title="Job 32:1">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/job/31.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/job/31.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />then instead of wheat and barley, may weeds and thistles grow. The words of Job are ended. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/job/31.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/job/31.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />If I had, I would pray for weeds instead of wheat to grow in my fields. After saying these things, Job was silent. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/job/31.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Then let the thorns grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley! The words of Job are ended.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/job/31.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/14-9.htm">2 Kings 14:9</a> And Joas, king of Israel, sent again to Amasias, king of Juda, saying: A thistle of Libanus sent to a cedar tree, which is in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the beasts of the forest, that are in Libanus, passed, and trod down the thistle.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/3-17.htm">Genesis 3:17,18</a> And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23</a> And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of silver, shall become thorns and briers.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../zephaniah/2-9.htm">Zephaniah 2:9</a> Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the dryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the remnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../malachi/1-3.htm">Malachi 1:3</a> But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.</p><p class="hdg">cockle.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/72-20.htm">Psalm 72:20</a> The praises of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/job/31.htm">Job's Final Appeal</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">39</span>If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof: <span class="reftext">40</span><span class="highl">Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.</span><div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/32-13.htm">Job 32:13</a></span><br />Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him down, not man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-6.htm">Isaiah 5:6</a></span><br />And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/51-64.htm">Jeremiah 51:64</a></span><br />And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_chronicles/27-5.htm">Barley</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-13.htm">Briars</a> <a href="/judges/8-16.htm">Briers</a> <a href="/job/31-37.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/psalms/38-5.htm">Evil-Smelling</a> <a href="/nehemiah/6-15.htm">Finished</a> <a href="/job/30-24.htm">Forth</a> <a href="/job/16-16.htm">Foul</a> <a href="/job/31-10.htm">Grain</a> <a href="/job/31-16.htm">Grow</a> <a href="/job/3-24.htm">Instead</a> <a href="/job/31-37.htm">Job</a> <a href="/revelation/16-2.htm">Noisome</a> <a href="/job/12-8.htm">Plants</a> <a href="/genesis/3-18.htm">Thistles</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/25-18.htm">Thorn</a> <a href="/job/30-7.htm">Thorns</a> <a href="/job/15-3.htm">Useless</a> <a href="/matthew/13-41.htm">Weed</a> <a href="/matthew/13-40.htm">Weeds</a> <a href="/ezra/7-22.htm">Wheat</a> <a href="/job/31-37.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm">Barley</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Briars</a> <a href="/proverbs/15-19.htm">Briers</a> <a href="/job/39-3.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/psalms/38-5.htm">Evil-Smelling</a> <a href="/job/32-4.htm">Finished</a> <a href="/job/33-5.htm">Forth</a> <a href="/psalms/38-5.htm">Foul</a> <a href="/job/39-12.htm">Grain</a> <a href="/job/33-19.htm">Grow</a> <a href="/job/36-16.htm">Instead</a> <a href="/job/32-1.htm">Job</a> <a href="/psalms/38-5.htm">Noisome</a> <a href="/job/40-21.htm">Plants</a> <a href="/proverbs/24-31.htm">Thistles</a> <a href="/job/41-2.htm">Thorn</a> <a href="/psalms/58-9.htm">Thorns</a> <a href="/psalms/31-12.htm">Useless</a> <a href="/jonah/2-5.htm">Weed</a> <a href="/proverbs/24-31.htm">Weeds</a> <a href="/psalms/81-16.htm">Wheat</a> <a href="/job/32-4.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/job/31-40.htm">Job 31:40 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/job/31-40.htm">Job 31:40 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/job/31-40.htm">Job 31:40 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/job/31-40.htm">Job 31:40 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/job/31-40.htm">Job 31:40 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/job/31-40.htm">Job 31:40 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/job/31-40.htm">Job 31:40 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/job/31-40.htm">Job 31:40 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/job/31-40.htm">Job 31:40 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: and are barley briars briers come ended grow instead Job let of stinkweed The then up weeds wheat words<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/job/31-40.htm">OT Poetry: Job 31:40 Let briars grow instead of wheat (Jb) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/31-39.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 31:39"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 31:39" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/32-1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 32:1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 32:1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>