Job 31:8
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
King James Version
In Context
9If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Joshua 22:22The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)
Job 5:4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Job 18:19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Job 24:6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the 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 →