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Young's Literal Translation
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 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 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 cometh to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up mine eyes and see in a dream, and lo, the he-goats, which are going up on the flock, [are] ring-straked, speckled, and grisled;
`And He saith, Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and see -- all the he-goats which are going up on the flock [are] ring-straked, speckled, and grisled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to thee;
I [am] the God of Bethel where thou hast anointed a standing pillar, where thou hast vowed a vow to me; now, arise, go out from this land, and turn back unto the land of thy birth.'
And Rachel hath taken the teraphim, and putteth them in the furniture of the camel, and sitteth upon them; and Laban feeleth all the tent, and hath not found;
and she saith unto her father, `Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise at thy presence, for the way of women [is] on me;' and he searcheth, and hath not found the teraphim.
`And ye are holy men to Me, and flesh torn in the field ye do not eat, to a dog ye do cast it.
a carcase or torn thing he doth not eat, for uncleanness thereby; I [am] Jehovah.
And there were shepherds in the same region, lodging in the field, and keeping the night-watches over their flock,
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.
