Job 31:8

then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

In Context

7if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

9If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lay with her. Thou shall build a house, and thou shall not dwell in it. Thou shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.

Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.

Joshua 22:22The Mighty One, God, LORD, the Mighty One, God, LORD, he knows, and Israel he shall know, if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against LORD (do not save us this day),

Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

Job 18:19He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.

Job 24:6They cut their provender in the field, and they glean the vintage of the wicked.

Matthew Henry on Job 31:2-9

Job's Vindication of Himself. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 7 If my step hath… Read the whole commentary →

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