the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Job 31:39
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or if I have stolen its crops or murdered its owners,
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 thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
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 the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:
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 its fruits without paying for them, Or have caused its [rightful] owners to lose their lives,
if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last,
if Y eet fruytis therof with out money, and Y turmentide the soule of erthetileris of it;
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, 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 ate its produce without paying or made its owners despair;
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 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 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 I haue eaten the fruites thereof without siluer: or if I haue grieued the soules of the masters thereof,
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, 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 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 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 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;
If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
yf I haue eaten the frutes therof vnpayed for, yee yf I haue greued eny of the plow men:
If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,
If I have eaten its fruit [fn] without money,Or caused its 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 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
And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched but found not the images.
And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith; I am the Lord .
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, 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.
