then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
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then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
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Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
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Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
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Passages linked to Job 31:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 26:16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
- Micah 6:15 You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.
- Deuteronomy 28:38 You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
- Deuteronomy 28:30-33 You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit. Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you. Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand. A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,
- Deuteronomy 28:51 They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
- Judges 6:3-6 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them. They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey. For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it. Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.
- Job 5:4-5 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
- Job 15:30 He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
- Job 18:19 He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
- Job 20:18 He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
- Job 24:6 They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
- Psalms 109:13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain According to the curse of the law, Deut. 28:33.
According to the curse of the law, Deut. 28:33.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 31:8 [Then] let me sow, and let another…
Job 31:8 [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Ver. 8. Then let me sow, and another eat] God loves to retaliate; and let him do so to me, according to that he hath threatened, Deu 28:30, &c., and as he executed upon Laban, Nabal, Saul, Haman, others. The Greeks have a proverb,
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Aλλοι μεν σπειρουσ’ αλλοι δ αν αμησονται.
Some sow that which others reap. This Job wisheth may befall, if he had been oppressive and injurious, as Eliphaz had wrongfully accused him, Job 22:6.
Yea, let my offspring be rooted out] Or, Let that which I have planted be plucked up by the roots. It is commonly seen that oppressors and unconscionable persons procure their own ruth and ruin; and he that gathereth the fruits of another man’s tree pulleth his own up by the roots.
Oι αυτω κακα τευχει ανηρ, αλλω κακα τευχων.
Those who spoil houses which they builded not, Job 20:19, shall, when they cease to spoil, be made a spoil; and when they have made an end of dealing treacherously, be treacherously dealt with themselves, Isa 13:1.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Let strangers enjoy the fruit of my labours, according…
Let strangers enjoy the fruit of my labours, according to God’s curse, Lev 26:16; Deu 28:30.
My offspring; as this word is used, Job 5:25; 27:14. Or rather, my increase, or growths, or sprouts, i.e. all my plants, and fruits, and improvements. For,
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1. So the word properly signifies.
2. So this latter branch of the verse explains the former, as is most frequent in this and some other books of Scripture.
3. He had not now any children to be rooted out.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain If mine heart have been deceived by a woman,....…
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman,.... By another man's wife, by wantonly looking at her beauty, and so lusting after her; and so, not through any blame or fault of hers, or by any artful methods made use of by her, to allure and ensnare; such as were practised by the harlot, Pro 7:1; but by neither was the heart of Job deceived, and drawn into the sin of uncleanness; for he had made a covenant with his eyes, as not to look at a virgin, so much less at another man's wife, to prevent his lusting after her; and whatever temptations and solicitations he might have been attended with, through the grace of God, as Joseph was, he was enabled to withstand them; though as wise a man, and the wisest of men, had his heart deceived and drawn aside thereby, Ecc 7:26;
or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door: to meet with his wife there, and carry on an intrigue with her; or to take the opportunity of going in when opened, in order to solicit her to his embraces, knowing her husband to be away from home; see Pro 5:8.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Increase - All my plants, and fruits, and improvements.
Increase - All my plants, and fruits, and improvements.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 8. Let me sow, and let another eat]…
Verse 8. Let me sow, and let another eat] Let me be plagued both in my circumstances and in my family.
My offspring be rooted out.] It has already appeared probable that all Job's children were not destroyed in the fall of the house mentioned Job 1:18-19.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Then let me sow, and let another eat -…
Then let me sow, and let another eat - This is the imprecation which he invokes, in case he had been guilty in this respect. He consented to sow his fields, and let others enjoy the harvest. The expression used here is common in the Scriptures to denote insecurity of property or calamity in general; see Lev 26:16 : “And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it;” compare Deu 28:30; Amo 9:13-14.
Yea, let my offspring be rooted out - Or, rather, “Let what I plant be rooted up.” So Umbreit, Noyes, Schultens, Rosenmuller, Herder, and Lee understand it. There is no evidence that he here alludes to his children, for the connection does not demand it, nor does the word used here require such an interpretation. The word צאצאים tse'ĕtsâ'iym - means properly shoots; that is, what springs out of anything - as the earth, or a tree - from יצא yâtsâ' - to go out, to go forth. It is applied to the productions of the earth in Isa 42:5; Isa 34:1, and to children or posterity, in Isa 22:24; Isa 61:9; Isa 65:23; Job 5:25; Job 21:8. Here it refers evidently to the productions of the earth; and the idea is, that if he had been guilty of dishonesty or fraud in his dealings, he wished that all that he had sowed should be rooted up.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Apodosis to Job 31:5, Job 31:7; the curses which…
Apodosis to Job 31:5, Job 31:7; the curses which he imprecates on himself, if he had done these things (Lev 26:16; Amo 9:14; Psa 128:2).
offspring--rather, "what I plant," my harvests.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 8. Let me sow, etc. — A proverbial phrase.…
8. Let me sow, etc. — A proverbial phrase. See Joh_4:37.
Offspring — Produce of the land.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. The imprecation.
8. The imprecation.
let my offspring be rooted out] Rather, let my produce, i. e. what springs out of that which I have planted or sown; comp. Lev_26:16; Deu_28:33.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Then let me sow, and let another eat. (comp.…
Then let me sow, and let another eat. (comp. Job_5:5 Lev_26:16 Deu_28:33, Deu_28:51, etc.) The expression is proverbial. Yea, lot my offspring be rooted out; rather, my produce, or the produce of my field (see the Revised Version).
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