Job 31:8
Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:30Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou build a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof.
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.
Joshua 22:22The Lord the most mighty God, the Lord the most mighty God, he knoweth, and Israel also shall understand: If with the design of transgression we have set up this altar, let him not save us, but punish us immediately:
Job 5:4His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
Job 18:19His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.
Job 24:6They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.
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 →