Job 31:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

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  • Lev 26:16 : 16 This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.
  • Deut 28:38 : 38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.
  • Deut 28:51 : 51 He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.
  • Judg 6:3-6 : 3 And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them; 4 And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses. 5 For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction. 6 And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.
  • Job 5:4-5 : 4 Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause. 5 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.
  • Job 15:30 : 30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.
  • Job 18:19 : 19 He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.
  • Job 20:18 : 18 He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
  • Job 24:6 : 6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.
  • Deut 28:30-33 : 30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it. 31 Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you. 32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything. 33 The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:9-12
    4 verses
    78%

    9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

    10 Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

    11 For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

    12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

  • Job 31:38-40
    3 verses
    76%

    38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

    39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

    40 Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

  • Job 31:7
    75%

    7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

  • Job 4:8
    74%

    8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

  • Job 8:17-19
    3 verses
    74%

    17 His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

    18 If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

    19 Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.

  • Job 18:16
    74%

    16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

  • Job 31:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

    22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

  • Ps 109:8-11
    4 verses
    73%

    8 Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.

    9 Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

    10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

    11 Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.

  • Ps 21:10
    73%

    10 Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

  • Job 6:9
    73%

    9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

  • Ps 109:13
    72%

    13 Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.

  • Job 31:29
    72%

    29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

  • Job 27:14
    72%

    14 If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

  • Ps 35:8
    72%

    8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • Job 27:7
    71%

    7 Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

  • Joel 1:17
    71%

    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Job 14:8
    71%

    8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

  • Job 5:3
    71%

    3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

  • Job 31:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

    17 If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

  • Job 5:5
    71%

    5 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.

  • Zech 11:9
    70%

    9 And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

  • Isa 27:5
    70%

    5 Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.

  • Jer 18:21
    70%

    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • Ps 7:5
    70%

    5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

  • Job 21:8
    70%

    8 Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

  • Job 13:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13 Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

    14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

  • Job 9:31
    70%

    31 Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

  • Isa 17:11
    69%

    11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

  • Job 19:28
    69%

    28 If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

  • 2 Sam 14:7
    69%

    7 And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

  • Ezek 31:11
    69%

    11 I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out.

  • Job 8:12
    69%

    12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • Deut 22:9
    69%

    9 Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

  • Joel 1:7
    69%

    7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

  • Isa 14:30
    69%

    30 And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.

  • Prov 12:12
    69%

    12 The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.

  • Job 8:4
    69%

    4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.