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Job 4:8
What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
Job 4:8 · Bible in Basic English
Job 4:8 in other translations
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
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In context
5 But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.
6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?
7 Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?
8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
9 By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.
10 Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11 The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.
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