tsen denotes thorns encountered as obstacles or amid a harvest in the supplied verses.

The attested use refers to thorns: in one verse they occur amid a harvest, and in the other they lie in the way alongside snares.

1. Thorns in difficult surroundings · dominant

   Both occurrences use the masculine plural absolute form. In Job 5:5 the APB renders a harvest being taken “even from thorns,” while in Proverbs 22:5 it renders “Thorns and snares” as lying in the way of the twisted.

   Job 5:5Proverbs 22:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “thorns” in both verses, though it places them amid a harvest in Job 5:5 and alongside snares in a path in Proverbs 22:5. The verse is read as a whole.