Job 31:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

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  • Lev 26:16 : 16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; And crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.
  • Deut 28:38 : 38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
  • Deut 28:51 : 51 and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
  • Judg 6:3-6 : 3 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them; 4 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it. 6 Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.
  • Job 5:4-5 : 4 His children are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, 5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.
  • Job 15:30 : 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.
  • Job 18:19 : 19 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
  • Job 20:18 : 18 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
  • Job 24:6 : 6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
  • Deut 28:30-33 : 30 You shall betroth 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 use the fruit of it. 31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you. 32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand. 33 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:9-12
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    78%

    9 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

    10 Then let my wife grind for another, And let others sleep with her.

    11 For that would be a heinous crime; Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

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

  • Job 31:38-40
    3 verses
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    38 If my land cries out against me, And the furrows of it weep together;

    39 If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, Or have caused the owners of it to lose their life:

    40 Let briars grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

  • 7 If my step has turned out of the way, If my heart walked after my eyes, If any defilement has stuck to my hands,

  • 8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.

  • Job 8:17-19
    3 verses
    74%

    17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile, He sees the place of stones.

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

    19 Behold, this is the joy of his way: Out of the earth shall others spring.

  • 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.

  • Job 31:21-22
    2 verses
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    21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

    22 Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And my arm be broken from the bone.

  • Ps 109:8-11
    4 verses
    73%

    8 Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

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

    10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

    11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

  • 10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, Their posterity from among the children of men.

  • 9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

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

  • 29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

  • 14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

  • 8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • 7 "Let my enemy be as the wicked, Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

  • 17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

  • 8 Though the root of it grows old in the earth, And the stock of it dies in the ground;

  • 3 I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

  • Job 31:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

    17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless has not eaten of it

  • 5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.

  • 9 Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh."

  • 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; [yes], let him make peace with me.

  • 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

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    5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

  • 8 Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes.

  • Job 13:13-14
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    13 "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

    14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

  • 31 Yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

  • 11 In the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed to blossom; but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

  • 28 If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' Because the root of the matter is found in me,

  • 7 Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

  • 11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

  • 12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.

  • 9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

  • 7 He has laid my vine waste, And stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

  • 30 The firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant shall be killed.

  • 12 The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, But the root of the righteous flourishes.

  • 4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience;