Job 31:39

If I ever consumed its strength without payment, or caused the soul of its owners to grieve:

Leeser Tanakh

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 my land ever cried out because of me, or if its furrows wept together;

40Then may instead of wheat, thorns come forth, and instead of barley, cockle. (Here end the words of Job.)

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:13And there came in two men, worthless fellows, and seated themselves opposite to him; and these worthless men testified against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king. Then they led him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

Proverbs 1:19So are the paths of every one that is greedy after [unlawful] gain; it taketh away the life of those that own it.

Jeremiah 22:13Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that maketh his neighbor work without wages, and giveth him not the reward for his labor;

Ezekiel 22:12Bribes they took within thee, in order to shed blood; interest and increase didst thou take, and thou didst acquire gain off thy neighbors by extortion: and me thou didst forget, saith the Lord Eternal.

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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