Job 4:8

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Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

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  • Prov 22:8 : 8 The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows, 8 because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.
  • Hos 10:12-13 : 12 Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers deliverance on you. 13 But you have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your chariots; you have relied on your many warriors.
  • 2 Cor 9:6 : 6 My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.
  • Jer 4:18 : 18 “The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”
  • Job 15:35 : 35 They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception.”
  • Ps 7:14-16 : 14 See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies– 15 he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made. 16 He becomes the victim of his own destructive plans and the violence he intended for others falls on his own head.

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  • Hos 8:7
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    7The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

  • Prov 22:8
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    8The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

  • Job 24:6
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    6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Prov 11:18-19
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    18The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.

    19True righteousness leads to life, but the one who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

  • Hos 10:12-13
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    12Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

    13But you have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your chariots; you have relied on your many warriors.

  • John 4:36-37
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    36The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

    37For in this instance the saying is true,‘One sows and another reaps.’

  • Ps 28:4
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    4Pay them back for their evil deeds! Pay them back for what they do! Punish them!

  • Job 31:8
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    8then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

  • Gal 6:7-8
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    7Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

    8because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

  • Prov 11:31
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    31If the righteous are recompensed on earth, how much more the wicked sinner!

  • Ps 126:5
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    5Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

  • Job 4:7
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    7Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

  • Jer 12:13
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    13My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the LORD will take them away in his fierce anger.

  • Job 4:9
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    9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

  • Eccl 8:14
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    14Here is another enigma that occurs on earth: Sometimes there are righteous people who get what the wicked deserve, and sometimes there are wicked people who get what the righteous deserve. I said,“This also is an enigma.”

  • Job 21:18
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    18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

  • Ps 129:3
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    3The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

  • Isa 3:11
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    11Woe to the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.

  • Ps 92:7
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    7When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

    17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • Job 5:3
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    3I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.

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    4He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.

  • Job 31:3
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    3Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?

  • Hos 4:8-9
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    8They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!

    9I will deal with the people and priests together: I will punish them both for their ways, and I will repay them for their deeds.

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    21Calamity pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

  • Eccl 3:16
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    16The Problem of Injustice and Oppression I saw something else on earth: In the place of justice, there was wickedness, and in the place of fairness, there was wickedness.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18“The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”

  • Ps 7:14
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    14See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies–

  • Prov 10:16
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    16The reward which the righteous receive is life; the recompense which the wicked receive is judgment.

  • Eccl 8:11
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    11When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.

  • Job 21:8
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    8Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.

  • Job 35:8
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    8Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

  • Job 34:8
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    8He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Woe to them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

  • Prov 21:4
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    4Haughty eyes and a proud heart– what the wicked cultivate is sin.

  • Job 8:19
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    19Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

  • Prov 11:21
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    21Be assured that the evil person will not be unpunished, but the descendants of the righteous have escaped harm.

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    2Yet he too is wise and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree. He will attack the wicked nation, and the nation that helps those who commit sin.

  • Mark 4:14
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    14The sower sows the word.

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    26He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

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    5“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds devoured it.