Job 31:8
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Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.

John 4:37
For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

Leviticus 26:16
I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.

Job 20:18
He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.

Job 31:12
It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.

Micah 6:15
Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not be anointed with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not drink the wine.

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Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.

let me

Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

Job 24:6 They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.

Leviticus 26:16 I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.

Deuteronomy 28:30-33,38,51 Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou build a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof. . . .

Judges 6:3-6 And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up: . . .

Micah 6:15 Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not be anointed with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not drink the wine.

let my

Job 5:4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.

Job 15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own mouth.

Job 18:19 His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.

Psalm 109:13 May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
7If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands: 8Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.9If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:…
Lexicon
then may another
וְאַחֵ֣ר (wə·’a·ḥêr)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 312: Hinder, next, other

eat
יֹאכֵ֑ל (yō·ḵêl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

what I have sown,
אֶ֭זְרְעָה (’ez·rə·‘āh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify

and my crops
וְֽצֶאֱצָאַ֥י (wə·ṣe·’ĕ·ṣā·’ay)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6631: Issue, offspring, produce

be uprooted.
יְשֹׁרָֽשׁוּ׃ (yə·šō·rā·šū)
Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8327: To root, strike into the soil, to pluck from it


Additional Translations
then may another eat what I have sown, and my crops be uprooted.Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.

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

then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth.

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

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

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

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

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