Job 31:8
Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
American Standard Version
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 enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor`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 use the fruit thereof.
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Joshua 22:22The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, the Mighty One, God, Jehovah, he knoweth; and Israel he shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in trespass against Jehovah (save thou us not this day,)
Job 5:4His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
Job 18:19He shall have neither son nor son`s son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
Job 24:6They cut their provender in the field; And they glean 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 →