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Job 31:39

If I have eaten its fruits without paying for them, Or have caused its [rightful] owners to lose their lives,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Integrity;   Money;   Poor;   Temptation;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Land, Ground;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
if I have consumed its produce without paymentor shown contempt for its tenants,
Hebrew Names Version
If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, Or have caused the owners of it to lose their life:
King James Version
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
English Standard Version
if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last,
New Century Version
if I have taken the land's harvest without paying or have broken the spirit of those who worked the land,
New English Translation
if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners,
New American Standard Bible
If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,
World English Bible
If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, Or have caused the owners of it to lose their life:
Geneva Bible (1587)
If I haue eaten the fruites thereof without siluer: or if I haue grieued the soules of the masters thereof,
Legacy Standard Bible
If I have eaten its fruit without money,Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,
Berean Standard Bible
if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
Contemporary English Version
Nor have I cheated my workers and caused them pain.
Complete Jewish Bible
if I ate its produce without paying or made its owners despair;
Darby Translation
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
Easy-to-Read Version
I always paid the workers for the food I got from the land. I never let any of them starve.
George Lamsa Translation
If I have eaten its fruits without money; or if I have grieved one whose life is bitter,
Good News Translation
if I have eaten the food that grew there but let the farmers that grew it starve—
Lexham English Bible
if I have eaten its yield without payment, or I have caused the breath of its owners to die,
Literal Translation
if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yf I haue eaten the frutes therof vnpayed for, yee yf I haue greued eny of the plow men:
American Standard Version
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
Bible in Basic English
If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed--
King James Version (1611)
If I haue eaten the fruits thereof without money, or haue caused the owners thereof to loose their life:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If I haue eaten the fruites therof vnpayed for, yea if I haue greeued the soules of the maisters therof:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him:
English Revised Version
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
if Y eet fruytis therof with out money, and Y turmentide the soule of erthetileris of it;
Update Bible Version
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
Webster's Bible Translation
If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:
New King James Version
If I have eaten its fruit [fn] without money,Or caused its owners to lose their lives;
New Living Translation
or if I have stolen its crops or murdered its owners,
New Life Bible
if I have eaten its fruit without paying for it, and caused its owners to die,
New Revised Standard
if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;
Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:
Revised Standard Version
if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners;
Young's Literal Translation
If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,

Contextual Overview

33"Have I concealed my transgressions like Adam or like other men, By hiding my wickedness in my bosom, 34Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence and did not acknowledge my sin and did not go out of the door? 35"Oh, that I had one to listen to me! Look, here is my signature (mark); Let the Almighty answer me! Let my adversary write out His indictment [and put His vague accusations in tangible form]. 36"Surely I would [proudly] bear it on my shoulder, And bind the scroll around my head like a crown. 37"I would count out to Him the number of my steps [with every detail of my life], Approaching His presence as if I were a prince. 38"For if my land has cried out against me, And its furrows weep together; 39If I have eaten its fruits without paying for them, Or have caused its [rightful] owners to lose their lives,40Let thorns grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed and cockleburs instead of barley." So the words of Job [with his friends] are finished.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fruits: Heb. strength, Genesis 4:12

caused the owners thereof to lose their life: Heb. caused the soul of the owners thereof to expire, or breathe out, 1 Kings 21:13-16, 1 Kings 21:19, Proverbs 1:19, Isaiah 26:21, Ezekiel 22:6, Ezekiel 22:12, Ezekiel 22:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:10 - crieth Exodus 22:23 - they cry at all Leviticus 19:13 - the wages Numbers 5:22 - the woman Nehemiah 5:1 - a great cry Job 18:15 - because Job 20:19 - Because Isaiah 5:7 - a cry James 5:4 - the hire

Cross-References

Genesis 31:10
"And it happened at the time when the flock conceived that I looked up and saw in a dream that the rams which mated [with the female goats] were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis 31:12
"He said, 'Look up and see, all the rams which are mating [with the flock] are streaked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.
Genesis 31:13
'I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, and where you made a vow to Me; now stand up, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"
Genesis 31:34
Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel's saddlebag and sat on them. Laban searched through all her tent, but did not find them.
Genesis 31:35
So Rachel said to her father, "Do not be displeased, my lord, that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is on me and I am unwell." He searched [further] but did not find the household idols.
Exodus 22:31
"You shall be holy men to Me; therefore you shall not eat meat [from any animal] that has been torn to pieces [by predators] in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.
Leviticus 22:8
'He shall not eat that which dies [of natural causes] or is torn by a predator, becoming unclean by it; I am the LORD.
Luke 2:8
In the same region there were shepherds staying out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money,.... Or, "the strength thereof without silver" b; see Genesis 4:12, silver being the money chiefly in use in those times. Job's meaning is, that he ate not anything of the fruits and increase of his own land, without having paid for the same, which he would have done, if he had got his land out of the hands of the rightful owners of it, by deceit or violence; or if he had not paid his workmen for ploughing, sowing, reaping, c. or if he had demanded the fruits of the earth of his tenants, to whom he had let out his farms, without giving them a proper price for them:

or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life as Jezebel caused Naboth to lose his, who was the original proprietor, that Ahab might possess it, 1 Kings 21:7; or it may signify tenants, to whom Job rented out fields, but did not starve them by renting them under hard leases, or lands on hard terms, so that they could not live upon them; or it may design the tillers of the land, as Jarchi and Bar Tzemach; those that wrought in it, the servants that were employed in ploughing, c. to whom wages were due, and who had not too hard labour imposed upon them, to the endangering of their lives or he did not "afflict [and] grieve" c them, as some versions; or make their lives bitter, through hard bondage and service, as the Israelites in Egypt.

b כחה "robur ejus", Montanus, Bolducius, Mercerus, Drusius; "vim ejus", Junius Tremellius, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens

בלי כסף "sine, vel absque argento", Mercer, Drusius, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens.

c הפחתי "afflixi", V. L. "dolore affeci", Pagninus; so Broughton.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I have eaten the fruits thereof - Margin, strength. The strength of the earth is that which the earth produces or which is the result of its strength. We speak now of a “strong soil “ - meaning that it is capable of bearing much.

Without money - Hebrew “without silver “ - silver being the principal circulating medium in early times. The meaning here is, “without paying for it;” either without having paid for the land, or for the labor. “Or have caused the owners thereof.” Margin, the soul of the owners thereof to expire, or breathe out. The Hebrew is, “If I have caused the life of the owners (or lords) of it to breathe out.” The meaning is, if I have appropriated to myself the land or labor of others without paying for it, so that their means of living are taken away. He disclaims all injustice in the case. He had not deprived others of their land by violence or fraud, so that they had no means of subsistence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 31:39. If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money — I have never been that narrow-minded man who, through a principle of covetousness, exhausts his land, putting himself to no charges, by labour and manure, to strengthen it; or defrauds those of their wages who were employed under him. If I have eaten the fruits of it, I have cultivated it well to produce those fruits; and this has not been without money, for I have gone to expenses on the soil, and remunerated the labourers.

Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life — Coverdale translates, Yee yf I have greved eny of the plowmen. They have not panted in labour without due recompense.


 
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