Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

let someone else eat what I have sown,
and let my crops be uprooted.

New American Standard Bible

Let me sow and another eat,
And let my crops be uprooted.

King James Version

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

International Standard Version

what I've planted, let another eat or let my crops be uprooted."

A Conservative Version

then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


Then let me plant and [let] another eat [from the results of my labor],
And let my crops be uprooted and ruined.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

Julia Smith Translation

I will sow and another shall eat; and my offspring shall be rooted up.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

let me sow, and let another eat, and let my crops be rooted out.

Modern King James verseion

then let me sow, and let another eat; and let my harvests be rooted out.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

then shall I sow, and another eat; yea, my generation and posterity shall be clean rooted out.

NET Bible

then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Then let me sow
זרע 
Zara` 
Usage: 56

and let another
אחר 
'acher 
Usage: 166

eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

צאצא 
Tse'etsa' 
Usage: 11

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

7 If my step has turned from the way,
my heart has followed my eyes,
or impurity has stained my hands,
8 let someone else eat what I have sown,
and let my crops be uprooted.
9 If my heart has been seduced by my neighbor’s wife
or I have lurked at his door,


Cross References

Leviticus 26:16

then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you—wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

Micah 6:15

You will sow but not reap;
you will press olives
but not anoint yourself with oil;
and you will tread grapes
but not drink the wine.

Deuteronomy 28:38

“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

Deuteronomy 28:30-33

You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:51

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.

Judges 6:3-6

Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the Qedemites came and attacked them.

Job 5:4-5

His children are far from safety.
They are crushed at the city gate,
with no one to rescue them.

Job 15:30

He will not escape from the darkness;
flames will wither his shoots,
and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.

Job 18:19

He has no children or descendants among his people,
no survivor where he used to live.

Job 20:18

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it;
he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.

Job 24:6

They gather their fodder in the field
and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

Psalm 109:13

Let the line of his descendants be cut off;
let their name be blotted out in the next generation.

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