Job 31:8
then I hope/wish that when I plant seeds, someone else will harvest the crops and eat them and that others will uproot the fruit trees that I planted.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:30Some of you men will be engaged/promised to marry a young woman, but someone else will rape her. You will build houses, but you will never live in them. You will plant grapevines, but you will not eat the grapes; someone else will eat them.
Deuteronomy 28:38You will plant plenty of seeds in your fields, but you will reap only a small harvest, because locusts will eat the crops.
Joshua 22:22“Yahweh, the Almighty God, knows why we did that, and we want you to know, too. If we have done something wrong against Yahweh, you may kill us.
Job 5:4Their sons are never safe; they ◄lose their case/are condemned► when someone ◄takes them to court/sues them►, because there is no one to defend them.
Job 18:19They will have no children or grandchildren, no descendants where they previously lived.
Job 24:6The poor people harvest left-over grain in other people’s fields, and gather grapes from vineyards that belong to wicked men.
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 →