Job 31:8
then let someone else eat what I have sown, and all that I have grown be uprooted.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
In Context
9If a woman has seduced me, or if I have looked for an opportunity to sleep with my neighbor's wife,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:30You will be engaged to marry a woman, but another man will sleep with her. You will build a house but you won't live in it. You will plant a vineyard but won't benefit from any harvest.
Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow a lot of seed in the field, but harvest very little because the locusts will destroy it.
Joshua 22:22“The Lord is God of gods, the Lord is God of gods, and he knows! May Israel also know! If we're in rebellion against God or being disloyal to him then kill us right now!
Job 5:4His sons are never safe; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
Job 18:19They have no children or descendants among their people, and no survivors where they used to live.
Job 24:6They are forced to find what they can in other people's fields, to glean among the vineyards 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 →