Job 31:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Lev 26:16 : 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; and crush grapes, but not drink the wine.
  • Deut 28:38 : 38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
  • Deut 28:51 : 51 And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed: which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your kine, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.
  • Judg 6:3-6 : 3 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; 4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the produce of the earth till you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts in multitude; for both they and their camels were without number, and they entered into the land to destroy it. 6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
  • Job 5:4-5 : 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver them. 5 Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.
  • Job 15:30 : 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall go away.
  • Job 18:19 : 19 He shall neither have son nor descendant among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
  • Job 20:18 : 18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; according to his wealth shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.
  • Job 24:6 : 6 They reap each one his grain in the field and gather the vintage of the wicked.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the following generation let their name be blotted out.
  • Deut 28:30-33 : 30 You shall marry 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 gather the grapes thereof. 31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given unto your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them. 32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given unto another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no strength in your hand. 33 The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always:

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  • Job 31:9-12
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    78%

    9If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

    10Then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

    11For this would be a heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be judged.

    12For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

  • Job 31:38-40
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    76%

    38If my land cries against me, or its furrows likewise complain;

    39If I have eaten its fruits without payment, or caused the owners to lose their life;

    40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

  • Job 31:7
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    7If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any stain has cleaved to my hands;

  • Job 4:8
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    8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.

  • Job 8:17-19
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    17His roots are wrapped around the heap, and sees the place of stones.

    18If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'

    19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall grow.

  • Job 18:16
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    16His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off.

  • Job 31:21-22
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    73%

    21If I have lifted my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate;

    22Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and let my arm be broken at the bone.

  • Ps 109:8-11
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    73%

    8Let his days be few, and let another take his office.

    9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

    10Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

    11Let the extortioner seize all that he has, and let strangers plunder his labor.

  • Ps 21:10
    73%

    10You shall destroy their offspring from the earth, and their descendants from among the children of men.

  • Job 6:9
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    9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

  • Ps 109:13
    72%

    13Let his posterity be cut off; in the following generation let their name be blotted out.

  • Job 31:29
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    29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted myself up when evil found him;

  • Job 27:14
    72%

    14If his children multiply, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

  • Ps 35:8
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    8Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly, and let his net that he has hidden catch himself; into that very destruction let him fall.

  • Job 27:7
    71%

    7Let my enemy be like the wicked, and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • Job 14:8
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    8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;

  • Job 5:3
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    3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.

  • Job 31:16-17
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    16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

    17Or have eaten my portion alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;

  • Job 5:5
    71%

    5Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

  • Zech 11:9
    70%

    9Then I said, I will not feed you. Let what dies die, and what is to be cut off, let it be cut off. Let those that remain eat each other's flesh.

  • Isa 27:5
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    5Or let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

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    5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

  • Job 21:8
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    8Their descendants are established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.

  • Job 13:13-14
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    13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let happen to me what will.

    14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

  • Job 9:31
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    31Yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

  • Isa 17:11
    69%

    11In the day you shall make your plant to grow, and in the morning you shall make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

  • Job 19:28
    69%

    28But you should say, 'Why do we persecute him, since the root of the matter is found in me?'

  • 2 Sam 14:7
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    7And, behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they said, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall extinguish my last remaining ember, and shall not leave to my husband either name or remnant on the earth.

  • Ezek 31:11
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    11I have therefore delivered it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with it: I have driven it out for its wickedness.

  • Job 8:12
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    12While it is still green and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

  • Deut 22:9
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    9You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seeds, lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled.

  • Joel 1:7
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    7He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree: he has made it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.

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    30And the firstborn of the poor will feed, and the needy will lie down in safety: and I will kill your root with famine, and he will slay your remnant.

  • Prov 12:12
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    12The wicked desires the catch of evil men, but the root of the righteous yields fruit.

  • Job 8:4
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    4If your children have sinned against Him, and He has cast them away for their transgression;