Job 31:39

and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if too I grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him:

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

In Context

38If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together;

40then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:13And, behold, a prophet came to Achaab king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen this great multitude? behold, I give it this day into thine hands; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

Proverbs 1:19These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.

Jeremiah 22:13He that builds his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment, who works by means of his neighbour for nothing, and will by no means give him his reward.

Ezekiel 22:12In thee they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in thee interest and usurious increase; and by oppression thou hast brought thy wickedness to the full, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord.

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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