Job 31:8

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Job 31:8

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

Let me

Let my

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Let me

“His harvest the hungry devour
And take it to a place of thorns,
And the

schemer is eager for their wealth.

“They harvest their fodder in the field
And glean the vineyard of the wicked.

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.

You shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.

For it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and go against them.

“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.

Let my

“His sons are far from safety,
They are even oppressed in the gate,
And there is no deliverer.

“He will not escape from darkness;
The flame will wither his shoots,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.

“He has no offspring or posterity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.

Let his posterity be cut off;
In a following generation let their name be blotted out.