Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.

New American Standard Bible

His harvest the hungry devour
And take it to a place of thorns,
And the schemer is eager for their wealth.

King James Version

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

Holman Bible

The hungry consume his harvest,
even taking it out of the thorns.
The thirsty pant for his children’s wealth.

International Standard Version

Then the hungry will devour his harvest, snatching it even from the midst of thorns, while the thirsty covet their wealth.

A Conservative Version

whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.

American Standard Version

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.

Amplified


“The hungry devour his harvest
And take it even [when it grows] among the thorns;
The trap opens for [his] wealth.

Bible in Basic English

Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

Julia Smith Translation

Which his harvest the hungry one will devour, and not from thorns shall they take it, and destruction gaped after their substance.

King James 2000

Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their wealth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

whose harvest [the] hungry eats, and he takes it {from behind} [the] thorns; and [the] thirsty pants after their wealth.

Modern King James verseion

Their harvest the hungry eats, and takes it even out of the thorns; and the snare swallows up their wealth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that his harvest was eaten up of the hungry; that the weaponed man had spoiled it, and that the thirsty had drunk up his riches.

NET Bible

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

New Heart English Bible

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

The Emphasized Bible

Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

Webster

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

World English Bible

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

Youngs Literal Translation

Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קציר 
Qatsiyr 
Usage: 54

the hungry
רעב 
Ra`eb 
Usage: 19

eateth up
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

and taketh
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

it even out

unto, with, against, at, into, in, before, to, of, upon, by, toward, hath, for, on, beside, from, where, after, within
Usage: 0

of the thorns
צן 
Tsen 
Usage: 2

and the robber
צמּים 
Tsammiym 
Usage: 2

שׁאף 
Sha'aph 
Usage: 14

References

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Response Continues

4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer: 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance. 6 For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;


Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour, shall a people that thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually.

Deuteronomy 28:51

and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; for he shall not leave thee corn, new wine, or oil, offspring of thy kine, or increase of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

Judges 6:3-6

For whenever the Israelites put in seed the Mid'ianites and the Amal'ekites and the people of the East would come up and attack them;

Judges 6:11

Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Jo'ash the Abiez'rite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Mid'ianites.

2 Chronicles 33:11

And Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with fetters, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

Job 1:15

and they of Sheba fell upon them and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.

Job 1:17

While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.

Job 2:3

And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil? and still he remaineth firm in his integrity, though thou movedst me against him, to swallow him up without cause.

Job 12:6

The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth.

Job 18:8-10

For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;

Job 20:15

He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

Isaiah 62:8

Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength, I will indeed no more give thy corn to be food for thine enemies; and the sons of the alien shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast laboured;

Jeremiah 51:34

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

Jeremiah 51:44

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon is fallen.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel; he hath swallowed up all her palaces; he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Lamentations 2:16

All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up; this is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen it.

Hosea 8:7

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; should it sprout, it would yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

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