Job 31:38
If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
In Context
37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.
Cross References
Psalms 65:13The meadows are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, yea, they sing.
James 5:4Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of [the] Lord of sabaoth.
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 →