Parallel Verses

NET Bible

then let me sow and let another eat, and 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.

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

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 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,


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!

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