Key Verse Spotlight
Job 31:8 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“{Then} let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.”
Job 31:8
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. {Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice}
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
{Then} let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or {if} I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
{Then} let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
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