Job 4:8 — King James Version← Study notes
“Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.”
Job 4:8 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Job 4:87 words
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Church Fathers on Job 4:8
Even, as I have seen, they that plough iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap the same, by the blast of God do they perish, and by the breath of His nostrils are they consumed. To ‘sow griefs’ is to utter deceits, but to ‘reap griefs’ is to prevail by so speaking. Or, surely, they ‘sow griefs,’ who do froward actions, they ‘reap griefs,’ when they ate punished for this forwardness. For the harvest of grief is the recompense of condemnation, and whereas it is immediately…
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