Job 31:39

or if it were true that I have eaten the crops that grew in someone else’s fields without paying for those crops, with the result that those farmers who grew those crops died from hunger;

Translation for Translators

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 it were true that I have stolen land, with the result that it was as though its furrows cried out to accuse me of stealing;

40then I wish/desire that thorns would grow in my fields instead of wheat. May bad weeds grow instead of barley!” That is the end of what Job said to his three friends.

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:13Two men who always caused trouble sat opposite/facing Naboth. While everyone was listening, they stated that they had heard Naboth say things that criticized God and the king. So the people seized Naboth. They took him outside the city and killed him by throwing stones at him.

Proverbs 1:19That is what happens to people who eagerly try to get things by violently attacking others. They will only destroy themselves!

Jeremiah 22:13And Yahweh said to me, “Terrible things will happen to King Jehoahaz’s brother, King Jehoiakim. He unjustly forced men to build his palace. The rooms on the upper level were built by men who were forced unjustly to do that work; he forced his neighbors to work for nothing; he did not pay them anything.

Ezekiel 22:12There are among you men who accept bribes in order to cause someone to be executed [MTY]. You charge high interest when you lend people money. You become rich by forcing people to give you money. And the worst thing is that you have forgotten me, Yahweh the Lord.

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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