Job 31:8
then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
BSB
ASV
Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
KJV
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Let me sow, and let another eat - Let me be plagued both in my circumstances and in my family. My offspring be rooted out - It has already appeared probable that all Job’s children were not destroyed in the fall of the house mentioned Job 1:18, Job 1:19.
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Leviticus 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed…
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You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword…
And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.
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Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
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You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
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Micah 6:15You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
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Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the…
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Job 18:19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
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This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or…