Job 31:38
If my land ever cried out because of me, or if its furrows wept together;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
In Context
37The number of my steps would I tell him: as [to] a prince would I go near unto him.—
39If I ever consumed its strength without payment, or caused the soul of its owners to grieve:
Cross References
Psalms 65:13(65:14) The meadows are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are enveloped with corn: men shout for joy, [yea,] they also sing.
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 →