Job 4:8
New International Version
As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.

New Living Translation
My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same.

English Standard Version
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

Berean Standard Bible
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

King James Bible
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

New King James Version
Even as I have seen, Those who plow iniquity And sow trouble reap the same.

New American Standard Bible
“According to what I have seen, those who plow wrongdoing And those who sow trouble harvest it.

NASB 1995
“According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity And those who sow trouble harvest it.

NASB 1977
“According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity And those who sow trouble harvest it.

Legacy Standard Bible
According to what I have seen, those who plow wickedness And those who sow trouble harvest it.

Amplified Bible
“As I have seen, those who plow wickedness And those who sow trouble and harm harvest it.

Christian Standard Bible
In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same.

American Standard Version
According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow trouble, reap the same.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
As when I have seen, they who cultivate with sin and sow pain will reap it

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Accordingly as I have seen men ploughing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.

Contemporary English Version
In my experience, only those who plant seeds of evil harvest trouble,

Douay-Rheims Bible
On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

English Revised Version
According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Whenever I saw those who plowed wickedness and planted misery, they gathered its harvest.

Good News Translation
I have seen people plow fields of evil and plant wickedness like seed; now they harvest wickedness and evil.

International Standard Version
It's been my experience that those who plow the soil of iniquity and those who sow the seed of trouble will reap their harvest!

JPS Tanakh 1917
According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow mischief, reap the same.

Literal Standard Version
As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, | And sowers of misery, reap it!

Majority Standard Bible
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

New American Bible
As I see it, those who plow mischief and sow trouble will reap them.

NET Bible
Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

New Revised Standard Version
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

New Heart English Bible
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

Webster's Bible Translation
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

World English Bible
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.

Young's Literal Translation
As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

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Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed? 8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. 9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.…

Cross References
Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

Galatians 6:8
The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Job 15:31
Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

Job 15:35
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit."

Psalm 7:15
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

Proverbs 1:31
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 22:8
He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.


Treasury of Scripture

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

they that plow.

Psalm 7:14-16
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood…

Proverbs 22:8
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

Jeremiah 4:18
Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

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Job 4
1. Eliphaz reproves Job that the innocent do not suffer
7. He teaches God's judgments to be not for the righteous, but for the wicked.
12. His fearful vision to humble the excellency of creatures before God.














(8) They that plow iniquity.--Comp. Galatians 6:7-8; and comp. also the strange expression of Isaiah 5:18.

Verse 8. - Even as I have seen; rather, according as I have seen - so far, that is, as my observation goes (see the Revised Version, which is supported by Professor Lee and Canon Cook). They that plough iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same (comp. Proverbs 22:8; Hosea 8:7; Hosea 10:13; Galatians 6:7, 8). The words translated "iniquity" and "wickedness" express in the original both moral and physical evil. Men sew the one and reap the other. Eliphaz extends this general rule into a universal law, or, at any rate, declares that he has never known an exception. He has not, therefore, been grieved and perplexed, like David, by "seeing the ungodly in such prosperity" (Psalm 73:3). He would seem not to have been a man of very keen observation.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
As
כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

I have observed,
רָ֭אִיתִי (rā·’î·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

those who plow
חֹ֣רְשֵׁי (ḥō·rə·šê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise

iniquity,
אָ֑וֶן (’ā·wen)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 205: Strictly nothingness, trouble, vanity, wickedness, an idol

and those who sow
וְזֹרְעֵ֖י (wə·zō·rə·‘ê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify

trouble,
עָמָ֣ל (‘ā·māl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5999: Toil, wearing effort, worry, wheth, of body, mind

reap the same.
יִקְצְרֻֽהוּ׃ (yiq·ṣə·ru·hū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7114: To dock off, curtail, to harvest


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