Job 31:8
then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
In Context
9“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:30You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:38You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
Joshua 22:22“The Mighty One, God, the LORD, the Mighty One, God, the LORD, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against the LORD (don’t save us today),
Job 5:4His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Job 18:19He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
Job 24:6They cut their food in the field. 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 →