Job 4:8
In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
In Context
9perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit.
Cross References
Psalms 7:14And with it, he has prepared instruments of death. He has produced his arrows for those on fire.
Psalms 7:16He has opened a pit and enlarged it. And he has fallen into the hole that he made.
Jeremiah 4:18Your ways and your thoughts have brought these things upon you. This is your own wickedness. And it is bitter, because it has touched your heart.
Hosea 10:12Sow for yourselves in justice, and harvest in the mouth of mercy; renew your fallow land. But the time when you will seek the Lord is the time when he will arrive who will teach you justice.
2 Corinthians 9:6But I say this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. And whoever sows with blessings shall also reap from blessings:
Matthew Henry on Job 4:8-12
7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad. Eliphaz here advances another argument to prove… Read the whole commentary →