“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…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXII
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40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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In context
38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: