Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
If I've consumed its produce without paying for it and snuffed out the life of its owners;
New American Standard Bible
Or have
King James Version
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
Holman Bible
or shown contempt for its tenants,
A Conservative Version
if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,
American Standard Version
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
Amplified
If I have eaten its fruits without paying for them,
Or have caused its [rightful] owners to lose their lives,
Bible in Basic English
If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;
Darby Translation
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
Julia Smith Translation
If I ate its strength without silver, and caused its possessors to expire:
King James 2000
If I have eaten its fruit without payment, or have caused its owners to lose their life:
Lexham Expanded Bible
if I have eaten its yield without payment, or I have caused [the] breath of its owners to die,
Modern King James verseion
if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
if I have eaten the fruits thereof unpaid for, yea if I have grieved any of the plowmen;
NET Bible
if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners,
New Heart English Bible
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
The Emphasized Bible
If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;
Webster
If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:
World English Bible
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
Youngs Literal Translation
If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
Themes
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Koach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:39
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
38 "If my land were to cry out against me or if all its furrows wept as one, 39 If I've consumed its produce without paying for it and snuffed out the life of its owners; 40 may thorns spring up instead of wheat, and obnoxious weeds instead of barley." With this, Job's discourse with his friends is completed.
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Cross References
1 Kings 21:19
Ask the king, "Did you commit murder? And now you're going to steal as well?' Also tell him, "This is what the LORD says: "Where the dogs were licking up Naboth's blood, dogs will also lick up your blood that's right yours!"'"
James 5:4
Look! The wages that you kept back from the workers who harvested your fields are shouting out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.
Genesis 4:12
Whenever you work the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you, and you'll wander throughout the earth as a fugitive."
1 Kings 21:13-16
Two wicked men came in, sat down in front of them, and testified against Naboth in public, "Naboth cursed God and the king!" So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
Proverbs 1:19
Such is the way of all those who seek illicit gain it takes away the lives of those who possess it.
Isaiah 26:21
For see, the LORD is coming from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their sins; the earth will reveal the blood that has been shed on it, and will no longer conceal its slain."
Ezekiel 22:6
"""Watch out! Each of the princes of Israel has misused his authority to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:12-13
They take bribes among you to shed blood. You've taken usury and exacted interest. You've gained control over your neighbor through extortion. And you've forgotten me," declares the Lord GOD.