Job 31:39
If I consumed its strength without money, || And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
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In Context
38If my land cries out against me, || And together its furrows weep,
Cross References
1 Kings 21:13and two men—sons of worthlessness—come in, and sit opposite him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, “Naboth blessed [[ or cursed]] God and [the] king”; and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dies;
Proverbs 1:19So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, || It takes the life of its owners.
Jeremiah 22:13Woe to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, || And his upper chambers by injustice, || He lays service on his neighbor for nothing, || And he does not give his wage to him.
Ezekiel 22:12They have taken a bribe to shed blood in you, || You have taken usury and increase, || And cut off your neighbor by oppression, || And you have forgotten Me, || A declaration of Lord YHWH!
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 →