Parallel Verses
NET Bible
then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops 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.
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 my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands, 8 then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted. 9 If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 26:16
I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
Micah 6:15
You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.
Deuteronomy 28:38
"You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:30-33
You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
Deuteronomy 28:51
They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.
Judges 6:3-6
Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.
Job 5:4-5
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
Job 15:30
He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.
Job 18:19
He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.
Job 20:18
He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.
Job 24:6
They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
Psalm 109:13
May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!