Key Verse Spotlight
Job 4:8 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.”
Job 4:8
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
{Is} not {this} thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Remember, I pray thee, who {ever} perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. {by the breath...: that is, by his anger}
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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