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 cries against me and all its furrows likewise complain; 39 If I have eaten its fruit without money,
Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,
40 let thistles grow up unto me instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:19

And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus hath the LORD said, Hast thou murdered and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him again, saying, Thus hath the LORD said, In the same place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs also lick thy blood, even thine.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.

Genesis 4:12

when thou tillest the ground, from now on it shall not yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

1 Kings 21:13-16

Then the two men, sons of Belial, came in and sat before him; and those men of Belial witnessed against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones that he died.

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which takes away the life of those who possess it.

Isaiah 26:21

For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against himself: the earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no longer cover her slain.

Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the princes of Israel, each one according to their power, were in thee to shed blood.

Ezekiel 22:12-13

In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.

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