Genesis Chapter 3 verse 18 Holy Bible
thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
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Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;
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and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
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Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
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Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
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Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
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and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Thorns also and thistles. Terms occurring only here and in Hosed 10:8 = the similar expressions in Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 7:23 (Kalisch, Keil, Macdonald). Shall it bring forth to thee. I.e. these shall be its spontaneous productions; if thou desirest anything else thou must labor for it. And thou shalt eat the herb of the field. "Not the fruit of paradise" (Wordsworth), but "the lesser growths sown by his own toil" (Alford) - an intimation that henceforth man was "to be deprived of his former delicacies to such an extent as to be compelled to use, in addition, the herbs which had been designed only for brute animals;" and perhaps also "a consolation," as if promising that, notwithstanding the thorns and thistles, "it should still yield him sustenance" (Calvin).
