Job 31:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ then let me sow and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Then let me sow and let another eat; yes, let the produce of my field or my offspring be rooted out.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

Common English Bible

⁸ then let me sow and another reap; let my offspring be uprooted.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ then may I sow, and let another consume, and let my offspring be eradicated.

Job 31:8 Cross References

Leviticus 26:16

I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you, consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Micah 6:15

You shall sow but not reap; you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes but not drink wine.

Deuteronomy 28:38

“You shall carry much seed into the field but shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.

Psalm 109:13

May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation.

Job 24:6

They reap in a field not their own, and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

Job 20:18

They will give back the fruit of their toil and will not swallow it down; from the profit of their trading they will get no enjoyment.

Job 18:19

They have no offspring or descendant among their people and no survivor where they used to live.

Job 15:30

they will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up their shoots, and their blossom will be swept away by the wind.

Deuteronomy 28:51

It shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, leaving you neither grain, wine, and oil nor the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, until it has made you perish.

John 4:37

For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’

Job 31:12

for that would be a fire consuming down to Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my harvest.

Joshua 22:22

“The Lord, God of gods! The Lord, God of gods! He knows, and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith toward the Lord, do not spare us today