Parallel Verses
Amplified
If I have eaten its fruits without paying for them,
Or have caused its [rightful] owners to lose their lives,
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,
International Standard Version
If I've consumed its produce without paying for it and snuffed out the life of its owners;
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:
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
Interlinear
Koach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:39
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
38
“For if my land has cried out against me,
And its furrows weep together;
If I have eaten its fruits without paying for them,
Or have caused its [rightful] owners to lose their lives,
Let thorns grow instead of wheat,
And stinkweed and cockleburs instead of barley.”
So the words of Job [with his friends] are finished.
Names
Cross References
1 Kings 21:19
You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Have you murdered and also taken possession [of the victim’s property]?”’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick up your blood as well.”’”
James 5:4
Look! The wages that you have [fraudulently] withheld from the laborers who have mowed your fields are crying out [against you for vengeance]; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of
Genesis 4:12
When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength [it will resist producing good crops] for you; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond [roaming aimlessly] on the earth [in perpetual exile without a home, a degraded outcast].”
1 Kings 21:13-16
Two worthless and unprincipled men came in and sat down opposite him; and they testified against Naboth before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed and renounced God and the king.” Then they brought him outside the city and stoned him to death.
Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain;
Greed takes away the lives of its possessors.
Isaiah 26:21
Listen carefully, the Lord is about to come out of His [heavenly] place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their wickedness [their sin, their injustice, their wrongdoing];
The earth will reveal the [innocent] blood shed upon her
And will no longer cover her slain.
Ezekiel 22:6
“Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been intending to shed blood in you.
Ezekiel 22:12-13
In you they have accepted bribes to shed blood; you have taken [forbidden] interest and [a percentage of] profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression and extortion, and you have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.