⁴⁰ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

⁶ And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

⁸ But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.