New Revised Standard Version
thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Contemporary English Version
Your food will be plants, but the ground will produce thorns and thistles.

New American Bible
Thorns and thistles it shall bear for you, and you shall eat the grass of the field.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth.

Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth.

Thorns.

Joshua 23:13 Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your God will not destroy them before your face, but they shall be a pit and a snare in your way, and a stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you.

Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

Job 31:40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

Proverbs 22:5 Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul, departeth far from them.

Proverbs 24:31 And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 5:6 And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of silver, shall become thorns and briers.

Isaiah 32:13 Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?

Jeremiah 4:3 For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns:

Jeremiah 12:13 They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.

Matthew 13:7 And others fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked them.

Hebrews 6:8 But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and very near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt.

bring forth.

Job 1:21 And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

Psalm 90:3 Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

Psalm 104:2,14,15 And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion: . . .

Romans 14:2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.