³¹ And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.

¹⁷ And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed `is' the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,

¹⁸ and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;

¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'

²² `And that sown toward the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, do choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

⁷ and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns did come up and choke them,

³ For thus said Jehovah, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns.

⁵ And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.

¹⁸ By slothfulness is the wall brought low, And by idleness of the hands doth the house drop.

²¹ For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

¹³ The slothful hath said, `A lion `is' without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'

⁴ Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.

²³ The fear of Jehovah `is' to life, And satisfied he remaineth -- he is not charged with evil.

⁴⁰ Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

⁸ and that which is bearing thorns and briers `is' disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end `is' for burning;