Job 31:38
If my land cry out against me, And its furrows bewail together;
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
In Context
37I would disclose to him all my steps; I would approach him like a prince.
39If I have eaten of its fruits without payment, And wrung out the life of its owners,
Cross References
Psalms 65:13The pastures are clothed with flocks, And the valleys are covered with corn; They shout, yea, they sing for joy.
James 5:4Behold, the hire of the laborers who reaped your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, crieth out; and the cries 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 →