Job 31:8 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

then let someone else eat what I have planted, and let my crops be uprooted.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

DBY:

Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, 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.

YLT:

Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.

Job 31:8 Cross References

XREF:

Leviticus 26:16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

Job 20:18 "He returns what he has attained And cannot swallow it; As to the riches of his trading, He cannot even enjoy them.

Job 31:12 "For it would be fire that consumes to Abaddon, And would uproot all my increase.

Micah 6:15 "You will sow but you will not reap. You will tread the olive but will not anoint yourself with oil; And the grapes, but you will not drink wine. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

31:8 [Then] let me sow, and let another {f} eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
(f) According to the curse of the law, De 28:33.

WES:

31:8 Increase - All my plants, and fruits, and improvements.

MHC:

31:1-8 Job did not speak the things here recorded by way of boasting, but in answer to the charge of hypocrisy. He understood the spiritual nature of God's commandments, as reaching to the thoughts and intents of the heart. It is best to let our actions speak for us; but in some cases we owe it to ourselves and to the cause of God, solemnly to protest our innocence of the crimes of which we are falsely accused. The lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world, are two fatal rocks on which multitudes split; against these Job protests he was always careful to stand upon his guard. And God takes more exact notice of us than we do of ourselves; let us therefore walk circumspectly. He carefully avoided all sinful means of getting wealth. He dreaded all forbidden profit as much as all forbidden pleasure. What we have in the world may be used with comfort, or lost with comfort, if honestly gotten. Without strict honestly and faithfulness in all our dealings, we can have no good evidence of true godliness. Yet how many professors are unable to abide this touchstone!

CONC:

Crops Eat Field Fruit Grows Offspring Produce Products Rooted Seed Sow Sown Uprooted Yea Yes

Crops Earth Eat Field Fruit Grows Offspring Others Produce Products Rooted Seed Sow Sown Uprooted

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