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

¹⁷ To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

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

¹⁹ By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

²² What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

⁷ Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them:

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

⁵ Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

¹⁸ By slothfulness the roof sinks in; And through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; And drowsiness clothes them in rags.

¹³ The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"

⁴ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

²³ The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; He rests and will not be touched by trouble.

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

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