Job 31:38

If at any time the land groaned against me, 1 And if its furrows mourned together; 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

In Context

37And if not, tearing it up I would return it, 1 Having taken nothing from the debtor. 1

39And if I ate its strength alone without price, 1 And if too I grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him: 1

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Cross References

Psalms 65:13I will go into thy house with whole burnt offerings; 1 I will pay thee my vows, 1

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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