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Job 31:39
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if I have consumed its produce without paymentor shown contempt for its tenants,
If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, Or have caused the owners of it to lose their life:
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last,
if I have taken the land's harvest without paying or have broken the spirit of those who worked the land,
if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners,
If I have eaten its fruits without paying for them, Or have caused its [rightful] owners to lose their lives,
If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,
If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, Or have caused the owners of it to lose their life:
If I haue eaten the fruites thereof without siluer: or if I haue grieued the soules of the masters thereof,
If I have eaten its fruit without money,Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,
if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
Nor have I cheated my workers and caused them pain.
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
I always paid the workers for the food I got from the land. I never let any of them starve.
If I have eaten its fruits without money; or if I have grieved one whose life is bitter,
if I have eaten the food that grew there but let the farmers that grew it starve—
if I have eaten its yield without payment, or I have caused the breath of its owners to die,
if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire;
yf I haue eaten the frutes therof vnpayed for, yee yf I haue greued eny of the plow men:
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed--
If I haue eaten the fruits thereof without money, or haue caused the owners thereof to loose their life:
If I haue eaten the fruites therof vnpayed for, yea if I haue greeued the soules of the maisters therof:
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:
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
if Y eet fruytis therof with out money, and Y turmentide the soule of erthetileris of it;
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:
If I have eaten its fruit [fn] without money,Or caused its owners to lose their lives;
or if I have stolen its crops or murdered its owners,
if I have eaten its fruit without paying for it, and caused its owners to die,
if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners;
If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:
if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners;
If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,
Contextual Overview
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
Once, when the animals were mating, I had a dream: I looked up and there in front of me the male goats which mated with the females were streaked, speckled and mottled.
He continued, ‘Raise your eyes now, and look: all the male goats mating with the females are streaked, speckled and mottled; for I have seen everything Lavan has been doing to you.
I am the God of Beit-El, where you anointed a standing-stone with oil, where you vowed your vow to me. Now get up, get out of this land, and return to the land where you were born.'"
Now Rachel had taken the household gods, put them in the saddle of the camel and was sitting on them. Lavan felt all around the tent but did not find them.
She said to her father, "Please don't be angry that I'm not getting up in your presence, but it's the time of my period." So he searched, but he didn't find the household gods.
"If a thief caught in the act of breaking in is beaten to death, it is not murder; unless it happens after sunrise, in which case it is murder. A thief must make restitution; so if he has nothing, he himself is to be sold to make good the loss from the theft. If what he stole is found alive in his possession, he is to pay double, no matter whether it is an ox, a donkey or a sheep. (iii) "If a person causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over or lets his animal loose to graze in someone else's field, he is to make restitution from the best produce of his own field and vineyard. "If a fire is started and spreads to thorns, so that stacked grain, standing grain or a field is destroyed, the person who lit it must make restitution. "If a person entrusts a neighbor with money or goods, and they are stolen from the trustee's house, then, if the thief is found, he must pay double. But if the thief is not found, then the trustee must state before God that he did not take the person's goods himself. In every case of dispute over ownership, whether of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, clothing, or any missing property, where one person says, ‘This is mine,' both parties are to come before God; and the one whom God condemns must pay the other one double. "If a person trusts a neighbor to look after a donkey, ox, sheep or any animal, and it dies, is injured or is driven away unseen, then the neighbor's oath before Adonai that he has not taken the goods will settle the matter between them — the owner is to accept it without the neighbor's making restitution. But if it was stolen from the neighbor, he must make restitution to the owner. If it was torn to pieces by an animal, the neighbor must bring it as evidence, and then he doesn't need to make good the loss. "If someone borrows something from his neighbor, and it gets injured or dies with the owner not present, he must make restitution. If the owner was present, he need not make good the loss. If the owner hired it out, the loss is covered by the hiring fee. "If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price for her to be his wife. But if her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay a sum equivalent to the bride-price for virgins. "You are not to permit a sorceress to live. "Whoever has sexual relations with an animal must be put to death. "Anyone who sacrifices to any god other than Adonai alone is to be completely destroyed. "You must neither wrong nor oppress a foreigner living among you, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt. "You are not to abuse any widow or orphan. If you do abuse them in any way, and they cry to me, I will certainly heed their cry. My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword — your own wives will be widows and your own children fatherless. "If you loan money to one of my people who is poor, you are not to deal with him as would a creditor; and you are not to charge him interest. If you take your neighbor's coat as collateral, you are to restore it to him by sundown, because it is his only garment — he needs it to wrap his body; what else does he have in which to sleep? Moreover, if he cries out to me, I will listen; because I am compassionate. (iv) "You are not to curse God, and you are not to curse a leader of your people. "You are not to delay offering from your harvest of grain, olive oil or wine. "The firstborn of your sons you are to give to me. You are to do the same with your oxen and your sheep — it is to stay with its mother seven days, and on the eighth day you are to give it to me. "You are to be my specially separated people. Therefore you are not to eat any flesh torn by wild animals in the countryside; rather, throw it out for the dogs.
But he is not to eat anything that dies naturally or is torn to death by wild animals and thereby make himself unclean; I am Adonai .
In the countryside nearby were some shepherds spending the night in the fields, guarding their flocks,
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.
