Job 31:8
6 let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
7 If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
9 If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
10 then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
- KJV
- Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
- WEB
- then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
- ASV
- Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
- DARBY
- Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
- BLB
- [then] let me sow, and another may eat, and may my crops be uprooted!
- ÅB
- gid da en annen må spise det jeg har sådd, og gid det jeg har plantet, må rykkes opp med rot!
- OTB
- La meg så og en annen fortære,
Og la min avling bli rykket opp. - B1930
- gid da en annen må ete det jeg har sådd, og gid det jeg har plantet, må rykkes op med rot!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 26:16
then 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.
Read in contextMicah 6:15
You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:38
You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
Read in contextJudges 6:3–6
Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
Read in contextJob 18:19
He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
Read in contextJob 20:18
He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
Read in contextJob 15:30
He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
Read in contextJob 5:4–5
His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
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