Job 31:8

Let me sow—and another eat, || And let my products be rooted out.

Literal Standard Version

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 turns aside from the way, || And my heart has gone after my eyes, || And blemish has cleaved to my hands,

9If my heart has been enticed by a woman, || And I laid wait by the opening of my neighbor,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30You betroth a woman, and another man lies with her; you build a house, and do not dwell in it; you plant a vineyard, and do not make it common;

Deuteronomy 28:38You take much seed out into the field, and you gather little in, for the locust consumes it;

Joshua 22:22“The God of gods—YHWH, the God of gods—YHWH, He is knowing, and Israel—he knows, if [we are] in rebellion, and if in trespass against YHWH, do not save us this day!

Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, || And they are bruised in the gate, || And there is no deliverer.

Job 18:19He has no continuator, || Nor successor among his people, || And none is remaining in his dwellings.

Job 24:6They reap his provender in a field, || And they glean the vineyard 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 →

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