Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!
New American Standard Bible
And let my
King James Version
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Holman Bible
and let my crops be uprooted.
International Standard Version
what I've planted, let another eat or 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.
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
7 If my goings have swerved from the way, - and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain, 8 Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted! 9 If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 26:16
I also, will do this unto you - I will set over you, for terror, consumption and fever, Causing the eyes to fail and the soul to pine away, - And ye shall sow, in vain, your seed, for it shall be eaten by your foes.
Micah 6:15
Thou, shalt sow, but shalt not reap, - thou, shalt tread the olive, but shalt not anoint thee with oil, also the grape, but shalt not drink the wine.
Deuteronomy 28:38
Much seed, shalt thou take out into the field, - and little, shalt thou gather in, for the locust shall consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:30-33
A wife, shalt thou betroth, and, another man shall lie with her. A house, shalt thou build, and shalt not dwell therein, - A vineyard, shalt thou plant, and shalt not throw it open;
Deuteronomy 28:51
then shall be eat the young of thy cattle and the fruit of thy ground until thou art destroyed, who will not leave for thee corn, new wine or oil, the young of thy kine, or the ewes of thy flock, - until he hath caused thee to perish.
Judges 6:3-6
And so it used to be, if Israel had sown, then came up Midian and Amalek and the sons of the east, yea came up against them,
Job 5:4-5
His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:
Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness, his young branch, shall the flame dry up, and he shall depart, by the breath of his own mouth!
Job 18:19
Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:
Job 20:18
In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!
Job 24:6
In the field - -a man's fodder, they cut down, and, the vineyard of the lawless, they strip of its late berries;
Psalm 109:13
Let his posterity be for cutting off, In another generation, let their name be wiped out;