Job 31:8
Let me sowe, and let another eate: yea, let my plantes be rooted out.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
In Context
9If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lye with her: thou shalt builde an house, and shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not eate the fruite.
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt carie out much seede into the fielde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the grashoppers shall destroy it.
Joshua 22:22The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel himselfe shall know: if by rebellion, or by transgression against ye Lord we haue done it, saue thou vs not this day.
Job 5:4His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliuer them.
Job 18:19Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings.
Job 24:6They reape his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late vintage 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 →