Text -- Job 4:8 (NET)

4:8 Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 4:8

¹ tn The perfect verb here represents the indefinite past. It has no specific sighting in mind, but refers to each time he has seen the wicked do this.

² sn The figure is an implied metaphor. Plowing suggests the idea of deliberately preparing (or cultivating) life for evil. This describes those who are fundamentally wicked.

³ tn The LXX renders this with a plural “barren places.”

⁴ tn Heb “reap it.”