know and understand that Jehovah your God will no longer dispossess these nations before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which Jehovah your God has given to you.

The hungry eat up his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and a snare snatches their wealth.

then let thistles come forth instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are finished.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who keeps his soul shall be far from them.

and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.

and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

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

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

They have sown wheat, but reap thorns. They have tired themselves out, but to no profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.

but if it bears thorns and briars, it is unfit and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned up.

and he said: Naked I have come from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Jehovah has given, and Jehovah has taken away; blessed is the name of Jehovah.

You return man to dust, and say, Return, O sons of men.

who covers Yourself with light as with a garment, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and vegetation for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth,

and wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart.

For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables.