Job 4:8

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

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WEBBE

According to what I have seen, those who plough iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.

BSB

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

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 7–11

Eliphaz argues, 1. That good men were never thus ruined. But there is one event both to the righteous and to the wicked, Ec 9:2, both in life and death; the great and certain difference is after death. Our worst mistakes are occasioned by drawing wrong views from undeniable truths. 2. That wicked men were often thus ruined: for the proof of this, Eliphaz vouches his own observation. We may see the same every day.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.