Job 31:8

Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

9If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

Deuteronomy 28:38You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

Joshua 22:22God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will see--if it is in pride or in sin against the Lord,

Job 5:4Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

Job 18:19He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

Job 24:6They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

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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