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Job 31:40 KJV
Job · chapter 31 · verse 40
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.Job 31:40 · King James Version
Job 31:40 in context
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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- thistleschôwacha thornH2336 →
- cockleboʼshâhstink-weed or any other noxious or useless plantH890 →
- barleysᵉʻôrâhbarleyH8184 →
- wheatchiṭṭâhwheat, whether the grain or the plantH2406 →
- wordsdâbâra wordH1697 →
- growyâtsâʼto go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and…H3318 →
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We have here Job's protestation against three more sins, together with his general appeal to God's bar and his petition for a hearing there, which, it is likely, was intended to conclude his discourse (and therefore we will consider it last), but that another particular sin occurred, from which he thought it requisite…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 33-40