Job 31:38
So, if my land cries out against me, and if its furrows weep with it,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
In Context
37With each of my steps, I would pronounce and offer it, as if to a prince.
39if I have used its fruits for nothing but money and have afflicted the souls of its tillers,
Cross References
Psalms 65:13I will enter your house with holocausts. I will repay my vows to you,
James 5:4Consider the pay of the workers who reaped your fields: it has been misappropriated by you; it cries out. And their cry has entered into the ears of the 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 →