Job 31:8

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

Then let me sow {H2232}, and let another {H312} eat {H398}; yea, let my offspring {H6631} be rooted out {H8327}.

then let me sow and someone else eat, let what grows from my fields be uprooted.

then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Leviticus 26:16 (6 votes)

    I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

  • Micah 6:15 (5 votes)

    Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

  • Deuteronomy 28:38 (3 votes)

    Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather [but] little in; for the locust shall consume it.

  • Job 20:18 (2 votes)

    That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein].

  • Judges 6:3 (2 votes)

    And [so] it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

  • Judges 6:6 (2 votes)

    And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

  • Deuteronomy 28:51 (2 votes)

    And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which [also] shall not leave thee [either] corn, wine, or oil, [or] the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.