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Job 31:8

Job 31:8
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman,.... By another man's wife, by wantonly looking at her beauty, and so lusting after her; and so, not through any blame or fault of hers, or by any artful…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Then let me sow, and let another eat - This is the imprecation which he invokes, in case he had been guilty in this respect. He consented to sow his fields, and let others enjoy the harvest. The…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 31:1-8

The lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world, are the two fatal rocks on which multitudes split; against these Job protests he was always careful to stand upon his guard.

I. Against the lusts of…