Job 31:8 [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Ver. 8. Then let me sow, and another eat] God loves to retaliate; and let him do so to me, according to that he hath threatened, Deuteronomy 28:30, &c., and as he executed upon Laban, Nabal, Saul, Haman, others. The Greeks have a proverb,
Aλλοι μεν σπειρουσ ' αλλοι δ αν αμησονται .
Some sow that which others reap. This Job wisheth may befall, if he had been oppressive and injurious, as Eliphaz had wrongfully accused him, Job 22:6 .
Yea, let my offspring be rooted out] Or, Let that which I have planted be plucked up by the roots. It is commonly seen that oppressors and unconscionable persons procure their own ruth and ruin; and he that gathereth the fruits of another man's tree pulleth his own up by the roots.
Oι αυτω κακα τευχει ανηρ, αλλω κακα τευχων .
Those who spoil houses which they builded not, Job 20:19, shall, when they cease to spoil, be made a spoil; and when they have made an end of dealing treacherously, be treacherously dealt with themselves, Isaiah 13:1 .