Job 4:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

Cross References

Job 15:31

Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

Job 15:35

Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

Proverbs 1:31

So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

Proverbs 22:8

By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

Isaiah 17:11

In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

Hosea 8:7

For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

2 Corinthians 9:6

But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.