Job 31:8

Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7If my goings have swerved from the way,—and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,

9If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30A wife, shalt thou betroth, and, another man shall lie with her. A house, shalt thou build, and shalt not dwell therein,—A vineyard, shalt thou plant, and shalt not throw it open;

Deuteronomy 28:38Much seed, shalt thou take out into the field,—and little, shalt thou gather in, for the locust shall consume it.

Joshua 22:22El-Elohim-Yahweh, El-Elohim-Yahweh, he knoweth, and, Israel, he, shall know,—if in rebellion, or if in treachery, against Yahweh, do not save us this day:

Job 5:4His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:

Job 18:19Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

Job 24:6In the field—a man’s fodder, they cut down, and, the vineyard of the lawless, they strip of its late berries;

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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