Parallel Verses
Amplified
Let thorns grow instead of wheat,
And stinkweed and cockleburs instead of barley.”
So the words of Job [with his friends] are finished.
New American Standard Bible
And stinkweed instead of barley.”
The words of Job are ended.
King James Version
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Holman Bible
and stinkweed
The words of Job are concluded.
International Standard Version
may thorns spring up instead of wheat, and obnoxious weeds instead of barley." With this, Job's discourse with his friends is completed.
A Conservative 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.
Bible in Basic English
Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
Darby Translation
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Julia Smith Translation
The thorn shall come forth, instead of wheat, and the weed instead of barley. The words of Job were completed
King James 2000
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Lexham Expanded Bible
let thorns grow in place of wheat and noxious weeds in place of barley." The words of Job are ended.
Modern King James verseion
let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
then let thistles grow instead of my wheat, and thorns for my barley."
NET Bible
then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!" The words of Job are ended.
New Heart English Bible
let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
The Emphasized Bible
Instead of wheat, let there come forth bramble, and, instead of barley, a bad-smelling weed! Ended are the words of Job.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
39
If I have eaten its fruits without paying for them,
Or have caused its [rightful] owners to lose their lives,
Let thorns grow instead of wheat,
And stinkweed and cockleburs instead of barley.”
So the words of Job [with his friends] are finished.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 3:17-18
Then to Adam the Lord God said, “Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’;
In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it
All the days of your life.
Psalm 72:20
The prayers of David son of Jesse are ended.
Isaiah 7:23
And it will come to pass in that day, in every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be briars and thorns.
Zephaniah 2:9
“Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel,
“
And the
A land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
And a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of My people will plunder them
And what is left of My nation will inherit them [as their own].”
Malachi 1:3
but [in comparison with My love for Jacob] I have hated Esau (Edom), and I have made his mountains a wasteland, and have given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.”