Parallel Verses

Webster

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.

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.

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!

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 step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands; 8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out. 9 If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

Cross References

Leviticus 26:16

I also will do this to you, I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Micah 6:15

Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

Deuteronomy 28:38

Thou shalt carry much seed into the field, and shalt gather but little: for the locust shall consume it.

Deuteronomy 28:30-33

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell in it: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes of it.

Deuteronomy 28:51

And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou art destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy cattle, or flocks of thy sheep, until he hath destroyed thee.

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, even they came up against them;

Job 5:4-5

His children are far from safety, and 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, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Job 18:19

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Job 20:18

That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.

Job 24:6

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

Psalm 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

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