Job 31:8

Then let me sow, and let others eat; 1 And let me be uprooted on the earth. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7If my foot has turned aside out of the way, 1 Or if my heart has followed mine eye, 1 And if too I have touched gifts with my hands; 1

9If my heart has gone forth after another man’s wife, 1 And if I laid wait at her doors; 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shalt take a wife, and another man shall have her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell in it; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes of it.

Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt carry forth much seed into the field, and thou shalt bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.

Joshua 22:22God even God is the Lord, and God even God himself knows, and Israel he shall know; if we have transgressed before the Lord by apostasy, let him not deliver us this day.

Job 5:4Let their children be far from safety, 1 And let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer. 1

Job 18:19He shall not be known among his people, 1 Nor his house preserved on the earth. 1

Job 24:6They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: 1 The poor have labored in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food. 1

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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