Job 31:38
If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together;
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
In Context
37I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him as a prince.
39if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,
Cross References
Psalms 65:13The pastures are clothed with flocks. The valleys also are covered over with grain. They shout for joy; they also sing.
James 5:4Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:34-40
Job's Protestation of His Integrity. ( b. c. 1520.) 33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: 34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as… Read the whole commentary →