Job 31:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.”
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BSBPD
“then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Let me sow--and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 31:8 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
- Deuteronomy 28:30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.
- Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
- Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
- Deuteronomy 28:51They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
- Joshua 22:22“The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! He knows, and may Israel also know. If this was in rebellion or breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today.
- Judges 6:3Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
- Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
- Job 15:30He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
- Job 18:19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
- Job 20:18He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
- Job 24:6They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
- Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
- Micah 6:15You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
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