Job 4:8

6 Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

7 Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

10 The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
KJV
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
WEB
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
ASV
According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow trouble, reap the same.
DARBY
Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.
BLB
According to what I have seen, those plowing iniquity and sowing trouble—they shall reap it.
ÅB
Etter det jeg har sett, har de som pløyde urett og sådde nød, også høstet det.
OTB
Som jeg har sett,
de som pløyer urett
og de som sår trøbbel høster det samme.
B1930
Efter det jeg har sett, har de som pløide urett og sådde nød, også høstet det.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Galatians 6:7–8

    Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

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  • Proverbs 22:8

    He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

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  • Hosea 8:7

    For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

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  • 2 Corinthians 9:6

    Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

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  • Hosea 10:12–13

    Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

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  • Jeremiah 4:18

    “Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

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  • Job 15:35

    They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”

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  • Psalms 7:14–16

    Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

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