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Job 4:8 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 4:8Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 4:87 words
HebrewMeaning
כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣רkaʾăšer
just aspronH834
after · alike · because · every ···
רָ֭אִיתִיrāʾiytiy
I have seenverbH7200
appear · approve · behold · certainly ···
חֹ֣רְשֵׁיḥōrəšēy
plowers ofverbH2790
altogether · conceal · be deaf · devise ···
אָ֑וֶןʾāwen
wickednessnounH205
evil · false · idol · iniquity ···
וְ/זֹרְעֵ֖יwəzōrəʿēy
and sowers ofconjH2232
conceive seed · set with sow · yield
עָמָ֣לʿāmāl
mischiefnounH5999
iniquity · labour · mischief · miserable ···
יִקְצְרֻֽ/הוּyiqəṣəruhw
they harvest itverbH7114
at all · much discouraged · grieve · harvestman ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 5 §34
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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