¹⁸ thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

¹³ know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap unto you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.

² One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.

⁷ And others fell upon the thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked them:

¹³ They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

³ For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

¹³ Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

²³ And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be for briers and thorns.

⁶ and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

³¹ And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.

⁵ Thorns `and' snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.

¹⁴ He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth,

¹⁵ And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, `And' oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengtheneth man's heart.

² Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

³ Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

⁴⁰ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

⁵ Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.

²¹ and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.

⁸ but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.