Job 31:38
If my land has cried out against me; if her furrows have wept over me;
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
In Context
37I would explain to him everything I'd done; I would hold my head high before him.
39if I have taken its crops without payment or if I have caused harm to the farmers;
Cross References
Psalms 65:13The meadows are covered with flocks of sheep, and the valleys with fields of grain. Everything triumphantly sings for joy.
James 5:4Look, the wages of your farm workers that you cheated are crying out against you—the cries of the farm workers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
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 →