Księga Hioba 31:8

Biblia Tysiąclecia

Tedy niechże ja sieję, a inszy niech pożywa, a moje latorośle niech będą wykorzenione.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Tedy ja niechaj sieję, a drugi niechaj pożywa, a moje szczepie niechaj będzie z gruntu wykorzenione.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Tedy niechże ja sieję, a inszy niech pożywa, a moje latorośle niech będą wykorzenione.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
to niech ja sieję, a inny niech spożywa, a moje latorośle niech będą wyrwane!

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
niech sieję, a inny niech spożywa, oraz niech moje latorośle będą wykorzenione.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Wtedy niech ja sieję, a inny spożywa, niech moje latorośle będą wykorzenione.

Biblia Warszawska
To niech ja sieję, a inny niech spożywa, i niech będą wykorzenione moje latorośle!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

let me: Job 5:5, Job 24:6, Leviticus 26:16, Deuteronomy 28:30-33, Deuteronomy 28:38, Deuteronomy 28:51, Judges 6:3-6, Micah 6:15

let my: Job 5:4, Job 15:30, Job 18:19, Psalms 109:13

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[Then] let me sow, and another eat,.... If what he had before said was not true; but he had turned out of the way of righteousness, and walked after the sight of his eyes, and the mammon of unrighteousness cleaved to his hands; then he wishes might sow his fields, and another enjoy the increase of them, which is one of God's judgments threatened unto the wicked and disobedient, Leviticus 26:16;

let my offspring be rooted out; but Job had no offspring or children at this time to be rooted out or destroyed; they were all destroyed already; some think therefore that this imprecation was made by him in the time of his prosperity, though here repeated as it was then, he made a covenant with his eyes; but then this might have been improved against him and retorted on him, that so it was according to his wish; and therefore he must have been guilty of the sin he would have purged himself from; others suppose that he refers to the future, and to the offspring he hoped to have hereafter; and when he should have them, wishes they may be rooted out, if he had done what he denies he had; but it does not appear that Job had any hope at all of being restored to his former state of prosperity, and of being possessed of a family and substance again, but the reverse. Gussetius a will have it, that he means his grandchildren; those indeed are sometimes called a man's children, and may propriety be said to be his offspring, they springing frown him; and it is possible, that, as his sons were settled from him, they were married and had children; but this is not certain, or, if they had any, that these were not destroyed with them; wherefore it is best to take the word b in its first and literal sense, for what springs out of the earth, herbs, plants, and trees, as in Isaiah 42:5; so Ben Gersom and Bar Tzemach, and which best agrees with the phrase of being "rooted out", and with what goes before; that as he had wished that which was sown in his fields might be eaten up by another, so what was planted and grew up in his gardens, orchards, vineyards, and olive yards, and the like, might be quite rooted out and destroyed; if he was not the man he declared himself to be, or had wronged any of their goods and property, then this would have been a just retaliation of him.

a Comment. Ebr. p. 338. b יאצאי "germina mea", Beza, Montanus, Mercerus, Drusius, Michaelis, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 expression used here is common in the Scriptures to denote insecurity of property or calamity in general; see Leviticus 26:16 : “And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it;” compare Deuteronomy 28:30; Amos 9:13-14.

Yea, let my offspring be rooted out - Or, rather, “Let what I plant be rooted up.” So Umbreit, Noyes, Schultens, Rosenmuller, Herder, and Lee understand it. There is no evidence that he here alludes to his children, for the connection does not demand it, nor does the word used here require such an interpretation. The word צאצאים tse'ĕtsâ'iym - means properly shoots; that is, what springs out of anything - as the earth, or a tree - from יצא yâtsâ' - to go out, to go forth. It is applied to the productions of the earth in Isaiah 42:5; Isaiah 34:1, and to children or posterity, in Isaiah 22:24; Isaiah 61:9; Isaiah 65:23; Job 5:25; Job 21:8. Here it refers evidently to the productions of the earth; and the idea is, that if he had been guilty of dishonesty or fraud in his dealings, he wished that all that he had sowed should be rooted up.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 31:8. Let me sow, and let another eat — Let me be plagued both in my circumstances and in my family.

My offspring be rooted out. — It has already appeared probable that all Job's children were not destroyed in the fall of the house mentioned Job 1:18-19.