Job 31:38

If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

In Context

37I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

39If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

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Cross References

Psalms 65:13\65:12\Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

James 5:4See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

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 →

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