According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
⛓ Read Job 4 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
"Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (v.7) draws on the wisdom maxim of moral retribution stated in Job 4:8, "those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same." The sowing/reaping figure is a stock OT idiom; volume is high and coherence with Paul's flesh-vs-Spirit harvest (v.8) is strong.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Eliphaz's observation that 'those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same' is the negative form of Paul's reciprocity principle. The connection is thematic rather than verbal, and the moral valence is inverted (Job warns of bad harvests), so volume and coherence are limited. Included as a maximal flag for the broader OT sowing-reaping topos.
Low confidence'Those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same' — the enemy who sows evil seed and its harvest of judgment; proverbial sowing/reaping morality.
Low confidence