Job 31:38
If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
In Context
37I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.
39if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
Cross References
Psalms 65:13The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.
James 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
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 →