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Job 31:8 Cross-References
Explore 12 cross-references for Job 31:8 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 31 verse 8 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.”
Job 31:8 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 31:8
Then let me sow, and let another eat (אֶזְרְעָה וְאַחֵר יֹאכֵל, ezre'ah ve'acher yochel)—This self-imprecation invokes the covenant curse of Leviticus 26:16: 'ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.' Zara (sow) without reaping was the ultimate agricultural futility. Job invites this judgment if his hands bear moral 'blot' (v. 7).Yea, let my offspring be rooted out (וְצֶאֱצָאַי יְשֹׁרָשׁוּ, vetze'etza'ai yeshorashu)—Tze'etza'im (offspring, descendants, what comes forth) being sharash (rooted out, uprooted) meant complete extinction of one's lineage, the severest Old Testa...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 31:8
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“but won't reap. You will tread the olives”
“even consumption and fever”
“and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.”
“They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.”
“and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten”
“nor any remaining where he sojourned.”
“when Israel had sown”
“Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.”
“and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house”