Job 31:40 BSB — MannaFest

Job 31:40

then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Let thistles grow instead of wheat - What the word חוח choach means, which we translate thistles, we cannot tell: but as חח chach seems to mean to hold, catch as a hook, to hitch, it must signify some kind of hooked thorn, like the brier; and this is possibly its meaning. And cockle - באשה bashah, some fetid plant, from באש baash, to stink.

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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

At Job 31:37 would be the regular conclusion in strict art. But Job 31:38-40 are naturally added by one whose mind in agitation recurs to its sense of innocence, even after it has come to the usual stopping point; this takes away the appearance of rhetorical artifice. Hence the transposition by EICHORN of Job 31:38-40 to follow Job 31:25 is quite unwarranted.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
תַּ֤חַת	Ta.chat	in place of	H8478 →
חִטָּ֨ה׀	chi.Tah	wheat	H2406 →
יֵ֥צֵא	Ye.tze'	let it come forth	H3318 →
ח֗וֹחַ	Cho.ach	thorn[s]	H2336 →
וְתַֽחַת־	ve.ta.chat-	and in place of	H8478 →
שְׂעֹרָ֥ה	se.'o.Rah	barley	H8184 →
בָאְשָׁ֑ה	va.'e.Shah	foul weed[s]	H890 →
תַּ֝֗מּוּ	Ta.mu	they are finished	H8552 →
דִּבְרֵ֥י	div.Rei	[the] words of	H1697 →
אִיּֽוֹב׃ פ	'i.Yov	Job	H347 →

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Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual…
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- Isaiah 15:1–9
  This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!
- Isaiah 11:14
  They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites…
- Deuteronomy 29:23
  All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the…
- Isaiah 25:10
  For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
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Psalms 72:20
Thus conclude the prayers of David son of Jesse.
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- 2 Samuel 23:1
  These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist…
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Isaiah 7:23
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
leads to
- Isaiah 5:6
  I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
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Malachi 1:3
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
leads to
- Joel 3:19
  Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
- Obadiah 1:10
  Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

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