Job 31:8

Then let me sow, and let another eat; and let what I have growing be rooted out.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

In Context

7If my step have turned aside from the [proper] way, and my heart have walked after my eyes, and if any blemish have cleaved to my hands:

9If my heart have been beguiled toward a woman, or if I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door:

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30A wife wilt thou betroth, and another man shall lie with her; a house wilt thou build, and thou shalt not dwell therein; a vineyard wilt thou plant, and thou shalt not redeem it.

Deuteronomy 28:38Much seed wilt thou carry out into the field, yet but little shalt thou gather in; for the locust shall consume it.

Joshua 22:22The God of gods, the Eternal, the God of gods, the Eternal, he knoweth, and Israel also shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, [aid us not this day,]

Job 5:4His children are far from help, and men crush them in the gate, with no one to deliver them.

Job 18:19He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any that escapeth in the places of his sojourning.

Job 24:6In the field they reap their food; and in the vineyard of the wicked they gather the fruit.

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 →

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