Parallel Verses
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.
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 steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled,
8
And let my
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Names
Cross References
Leviticus 26:16
then this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them.
Micah 6:15
You will sow and not reap. You will tread the olives, but will not be anointed with oil! And you will grow the grapes but you will not drink the wine.
Deuteronomy 28:38
You will plant many crops in your fields, but harvest little for locusts will destroy your crops.
Deuteronomy 28:30-33
A man will be engaged to a woman, but before they can get married, enemy soldiers will rape her. Some of you will build houses, but never get to live in them. If you plant a vineyard, you will not be around long enough to enjoy the first harvest.
Deuteronomy 28:51
They will eat the offspring of your animals and the crops from your fields until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, no new wine, no olive oil, no calves from your herds, and no lambs or kids from your flocks. They will continue to do this until you are completely desolate.
Judges 6:3-6
When the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites along with the desert tribes attacked them.
Job 5:4-5
His children are far from help. They are crushed at the court of justice at the city gate. No one is there to rescue them.
Job 15:30
He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.
Job 18:19
He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
Job 20:18
What he toiled for he must give back uneaten. He will not enjoy the profit from his trading.
Job 24:6
They reap in a field not their own and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
Psalm 109:13
Let his descendants be cut off and their family name be wiped out by the next generation.