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Job 4:8

Job 4:8
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

By the blast of God they perish,.... They and their works, the ploughers, sowers, and reapers of iniquity; the allusion is to the blasting of corn by the east wind, or by mildew, &c. having used the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Even as I have seen - Eliphaz appeals to his own observation, that people who had led wicked lives were suddenly cut off. Instances of this kind he might doubtless have observed - as all may have…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 4:7-11

Eliphaz here advances another argument to prove Job a hypocrite, and will have not only his impatience under his afflictions to be evidence against him but even his afflictions themselves, being so…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 4:8-21

Third, surely instead of despairing and murmuring under his afflictions Job should follow a very different way. I, says Eliphaz, putting himself in Job's place, would seek unto God, all whose doings…