Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

what I've planted, let another eat or let my crops be uprooted."

New American Standard Bible

Let me sow and another eat,
And let my crops be uprooted.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

let someone else eat what I have sown,
and let my crops be uprooted.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


Then let me plant and [let] another eat [from the results of my labor],
And let my crops be uprooted and ruined.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

I will sow and another shall eat; and my offspring shall be rooted up.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

let me sow, and let another eat, and let my crops be rooted out.

Modern King James verseion

then let me sow, and let another eat; and let my harvests be rooted out.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

then shall I sow, and another eat; yea, my generation and posterity shall be clean rooted out.

NET Bible

then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

New Heart English Bible

then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

The Emphasized Bible

Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!

Webster

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

World English Bible

then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Then let me sow
זרע 
Zara` 
Usage: 56

and let another
אחר 
'acher 
Usage: 166

eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

צאצא 
Tse'etsa' 
Usage: 11

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

7 If I have stepped away from the way, or if my heart covets whatever my eyes see, or if some other blemish clings to my hands, 8 what I've planted, let another eat or let my crops be uprooted." 9 "If my heart has been seduced by a woman and I've laid in wait at my friend's door,


Cross References

Leviticus 26:16

then I will certainly do this to you: I'll appoint sudden terror to infect you like tuberculosis and fever. Your eyes will fail and your life will waste away. You'll plant in vain, because your enemies will consume what you plant.

Micah 6:15

You'll plant, but you won't reap. You'll crush the olive harvest, but you'll have no oil to anoint yourself. You'll tread out the grapes, but you'll never drink wine.

Deuteronomy 28:38

"You'll plant many seeds in a field, but your harvest will be small because the locust will consume it.

Deuteronomy 28:30-33

"You'll be engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You'll build a house, but you won't live in it. You'll plant a vineyard, but you won't harvest it.

Deuteronomy 28:51

Its army will consume the offspring of your animals and the produce of your soil until you are exterminated. They will leave you without your grain, wine, oil, the increase of your cattle, and the lamb of your flock, until you are completely destroyed.

Judges 6:3-6

Whenever the Israelis sowed their crops, the Midianites, the Amalekites, and certain groups from the east would come up and invade them.

Job 5:4-5

His children are far from deliverance; they'll be maltreated before they leave home, with no one to rescue them.

Job 15:30

He won't escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he'll depart by the breath of God's mouth.

Job 18:19

He has no children or descendants within his own people; and no survivors where he once lived.

Job 20:18

"He will restore what he has attained from his work and won't consume it; he won't enjoy the profits from his business transactions,

Job 24:6

They reap fodder in the field and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

Psalm 109:13

May his descendants be eliminated, and their memory be erased from the next generation.

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