Job 31:38
If my land cries out against me, || And together its furrows weep,
Literal Standard Version
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 I tell Him, || As a leader I approach Him.
Cross References
Psalms 65:13The meadows are clothed with the flock, || And valleys are covered with grain, || They shout—indeed, they sing!
James 5:4Behold, the reward of the workmen cries out, of those who in-gathered your fields, which has been fraudulently kept back by you, and the exclamations of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the LORD of Hosts;
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 →