Job 31:8

then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

9If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

Joshua 22:22“The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! He knows, and may Israel also know. If this was in rebellion or breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today.

Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

Job 18:19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

Job 24:6They gather fodder in the fields and glean 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 →

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