Księga Hioba 31:39

Biblia Tysiąclecia

Jeźliżem pożytków jej używał bez pieniędzy, i jeźlim do wzdychania przywodził dzierżawców jej:

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Jesliżem użytków jej używał bez pieniędzy i ociążyłem duszę tych, co na niej zasiedli,

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Jeźliżem pożytków jej używał bez pieniędzy, i jeźlim do wzdychania przywodził dzierżawców jej:

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
jeśli spożywałem jej plony bez zapłaty, a jej właściciela pozbawiłem życia,

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
jeśli jej plon spożywałem bez zapłaty, lub do wzdychania prowadziłem jej właściciela –

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Jeśli spożywałem z jej plonów bez zapłaty, jeśli jej właścicieli pozbawiłem życia;

Biblia Warszawska
Jeżeli spożywałem jej plony bez zapłaty, a jej właściciela pozbawiłem życia,

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

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.