Holy Scripture
Job 31:40
A church father on this verse
“Let the thistle grow for me instead of wheat, and the thorn instead of barley. As though he said in plain words; 'If I have done aught unjust towards those under me, if I have exacted the debts due to me, and have not myself paid what I owed, if I have envied others the executing of good practice, for the good things…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
40Then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, And a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.
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In context
38If at any time the land groaned against me, And if its furrows mourned together;
39And if I ate its strength alone without price, And if too I grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him:
— Job 31:40 —