Job 31:8
Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
In Context
9If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not eat of it.
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall devour it.
Joshua 22:22The God of gods, Jehovah, the God of gods, Jehovah, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know [it]; if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against Jehovah, save us not this day!
Job 5:4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:
Job 18:19He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
Job 24:6They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather 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 →