Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be 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.
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.
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 step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands, 8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out. 9 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 26:16
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
Micah 6:15
You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.
Deuteronomy 28:38
You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:30-33
You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:51
and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Judges 6:3-6
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them.
Job 5:4-5
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.
Job 18:19
He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.
Job 20:18
That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
Job 24:6
They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
Psalm 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.