Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

If I have eaten its fruit without money,
Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,

King James Version

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

Holman Bible

if I have consumed its produce without payment
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:

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If I have eaten
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

the fruits
כּוח כּח 
Koach 
Usage: 126

כּסף 
Keceph 
Usage: 403

or have caused the owners
בּעל 
Ba`al 
Usage: 85

נפח 
Naphach 
Usage: 12

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

38 "If my land has cried out against me and its furrows have wept together, 39 If I have eaten its fruit without money,
Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,
40 let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley."The words of Job are ended.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:19

And you shall say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Have you killed and also taken possession?"' And you shall say to him, 'Thus says the LORD: "In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood."'"

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Genesis 4:12

When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."

1 Kings 21:13-16

And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.

Proverbs 1:19

Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

Isaiah 26:21

For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.

Ezekiel 22:6

"Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

Ezekiel 22:12-13

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

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