Job 31:8

then may I sow, and let another consume, and let my offspring be eradicated.

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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 turned aside from the way, or if my heart has followed my eyes, or if a blemish has clung to my hands,

9If my heart has been deceived over a woman, or if I have waited in ambush at my friend’s door,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30May you take a wife, though another sleeps with her. May you build a house, but not live within it. May you plant a vineyard, and not gather its vintage.

Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow much seed upon the ground, but you will harvest little. For the locusts will devour everything.

Joshua 22:22“The Lord, the almighty God, the Lord, the almighty God, he knows, and also Israel will understand: If we have constructed this altar with intent of transgression, let him not preserve us, but instead punish us immediately.

Job 5:4His sons will be far from prosperity and will be crushed at the gate, and there will be none who can rescue them.

Job 18:19Neither his offspring, nor his descendants, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.

Job 24:6They reap a field that is not their own, and they harvest a vineyard that they have taken by force.

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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