Hiob 4:8

8 So wie ich es gesehen habe: die Unheil pflügen und Mühsal säen, ernten es.

Hiob 4:8 Meaning and Commentary

Job 4:8

Even as I have seen
Here he goes about to prove, by his own experience, the destruction of wicked men; and would intimate, that Job was such an one, because of the ruin he was fallen into:

they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same;
figurative expressions, denoting that such who devise iniquity in their hearts, form and plan schemes of it in their minds, signified by "plowing iniquity", and who were studious and diligent to put into practice what they devised; who took a great deal of pains to commit sin, and were constant at it, expressed by "sowing wickedness": these sooner or later eat the fruit of their doings, are punished in proportion to their crimes, even in this life, as well as hereafter, see ( Hosea 8:7 ) ( 10:13 ) ( Galatians 6:7 Galatians 6:8 ) ; though a Jewish commentator ^F2 observes, that the thought of sin is designed by the first phrase; the endeavour to bring it into action by the second; and the finishing of the work, or the actual commission of the evil, by the third; the punishment thereof being what is expressed in ( Job 4:9 ) ; the Targum applies this to the generation of the flood.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 R. Simeon Bar Tzemach.

Hiob 4:8 In-Context

6 Ist nicht deine Gottesfurcht deine Zuversicht, die Vollkommenheit deiner Wege deine Hoffnung?

7 Gedenke doch: Wer ist als Unschuldiger umgekommen, und wo sind Rechtschaffene vertilgt worden?

8 So wie ich es gesehen habe: die Unheil pflügen und Mühsal säen, ernten es.

9 Durch den Odem Gottes kommen sie um, und durch den Hauch seiner Nase vergehen sie.

10 Das Brüllen des Löwen und des Brüllers Stimme sind verstummt, und die Zähne der jungen Löwen sind ausgebrochen;