Job 31:8
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8 then let me sow and another eat,
and let what grows for me be rooted out.(A)
Leviticus 26:16
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16 I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you, consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.(A)
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Micah 6:15
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15 You shall sow but not reap;
you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil;
you shall tread grapes but not drink wine.(A)
Deuteronomy 28:38
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38 “You shall carry much seed into the field but shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.(A)
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Psalm 109:13
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13 May his posterity be cut off;
may his name be blotted out in the second generation.(A)
Job 24:6
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6 They reap in a field not their own,
and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
Job 20:18
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18 They will give back the fruit of their toil
and will not swallow it down;
from the profit of their trading
they will get no enjoyment.(A)
Job 18:19
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19 They have no offspring or descendant among their people
and no survivor where they used to live.(A)
Job 15:30
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30 they will not escape from darkness;
the flame will dry up their shoots,
and their blossom[a] will be swept away by the wind.(A)
Footnotes
- 15.30 Gk: Heb mouth
Job 5:4-5
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4 Their children are far from safety,
they are crushed in the gate,
and there is no one to deliver them.(A)
5 The hungry eat their harvest,
and they take it even out of the thorns,[a]
and the thirsty[b] pant after their wealth.(B)
Judges 6:3-6
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3 For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them.(A) 4 They would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the land, as far as the neighborhood of Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, nor any sheep or ox or donkey.(B) 5 For they and their livestock would come up, and they would even bring their tents, as thick as locusts; neither they nor their camels could be counted, so they wasted the land as they came in.(C) 6 Thus Israel was greatly impoverished because of Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.(D)
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Deuteronomy 28:51
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51 It shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, leaving you neither grain, wine, and oil nor the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, until it has made you perish.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:30-33
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30 You shall become engaged to a woman, but another man shall lie with her. You shall build a house but not live in it. You shall plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.(A) 31 Your ox shall be butchered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be stolen in front of you and shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies without anyone to help you. 32 Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people while you look on; you will strain your eyes looking for them all day but be powerless to do anything.(B) 33 A people whom you do not know shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; you shall be continually abused and crushed(C)
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