Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
then shall I sow, and another eat; yea, my generation and posterity shall be clean rooted out.
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.
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
7 If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands, 8 then shall I sow, and another eat; yea, my generation and posterity shall be clean rooted out. 9 "If my heart hath lusted after my neighbour's wife, or if I have laid wait at his door:
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Names
Cross References
Leviticus 26:16
then I will do this again unto you: I will visit you with vexations, swelling, and fevers, that shall make your eyes dazzle; and with sorrows of heart. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Micah 6:15
Thou shalt sow, but not reap; thou shalt press out olives, but oil shalt thou not have to anoint thyself withal; thou shalt tread out sweet must, but shall drink no wine.
Deuteronomy 28:38
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in: for the grasshoppers shall destroy it.
Deuteronomy 28:30-33
Thou shalt be betrothed unto a wife, and another shall lie with her. Thou shalt build a house and another shall dwell therein. Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not make it common.
Deuteronomy 28:51
And he shall eat the fruit of thy land and the fruit of thy cattle until he have destroyed thee: so that he shall leave thee neither corn, wine, nor oil, neither the increase of thine oxen nor the flocks of thy sheep: until he have brought thee to nought.
Judges 6:3-6
For when Israel had sown then came the Midianites, the Amalekites, and they of the east country upon them and pitched their tents against them,
Job 5:4-5
that his children were without prosperity or health; that they were slain in the door, and no man to deliver them;
Job 15:30
He shall never come out of darkness, the flame shall dry up his branches, with the blast of the mouth of God shall he be taken away.
Job 18:19
He shall neither have children nor kinfolks among his people, no nor any posterity in his country:
Job 20:18
But he shall labour, and yet have nothing to eat. Great travail shall he make for riches, but he shall not enjoy them.
Job 24:6
They reap the corn field that is not their own; and let the vineyard of the ungodly alone.
Psalm 109:13
Let his posterity be destroyed; and in the next generation let his name be clean put out.