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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 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 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 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
And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
And he said: Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled; for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
I am the God of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow a vow unto Me. Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.'
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the saddle of the camel, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.
And she said to her father: 'Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.' And he searched, but found not the teraphim.
span data-lang="eng" data-trans="jps" data-ref="exe.22.1" class="versetxt"> If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him. If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him--he shall make restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double. If a man cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. If a man deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double. If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near unto God, to see whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods. For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, whereof one saith: 'This is it,' the cause of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay double unto his neighbour. If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep, and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it; the oath of the LORD shall be between them both, to see whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness; he shall not make good that which was torn. And if a man borrow aught of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a hireling, he loseth his hire. And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live. Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. He that sacrificeth unto the gods, save unto the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed. And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise--for if they cry at all unto Me, I will surely hear their cry-- My wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest. If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by that the sun goeth down; for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto Me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse a ruler of thy people. Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto Me. Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep; seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it Me. And ye shall be holy men unto Me; therefore ye shall not 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 of beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.
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.
