¹⁸ Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

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

² One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

⁷ Others fell among thorns. 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 you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

³ For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.

¹³ On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

²³ It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

⁶ I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, But it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

³¹ Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down.

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: Whoever guards his soul stays from them.

¹⁴ He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And plants for man to cultivate, That he may bring forth food out of the earth:

¹⁵ Wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengthens man's heart.

² He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

³ You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

⁴⁰ Let briars grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

⁵ Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.

²¹ He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."

⁸ but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.