Job 31:8

Let me sow — and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,

9If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30'A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common;

Deuteronomy 28:38'Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;

Joshua 22:22'The God of gods — Jehovah, the God of gods — Jehovah, He is knowing, and Israel, he doth know, if in rebellion, and if in trespass against Jehovah (Thou dost not save us this day!)

Job 5:4Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

Job 18:19He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.

Job 24:6In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean.

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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