Genesis 3:18

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

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

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

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.

For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

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

Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eye...

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

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; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.