Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire,

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 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 lands cry against me, or its furrows weep together; 39 if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire, 40 let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:19

And you shall speak to him, saying, So says Jehovah, Have you killed and also taken possession? And you shall speak to him saying, So says Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Genesis 4:12

When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. And you shall be a vagabond and a fugitive in the earth.

1 Kings 21:13-16

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

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of everyone who gains unjust gain; it takes away its owners' life.

Isaiah 26:21

For behold, Jehovah comes out of His place to punish the people of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also shall reveal her blood, and shall no more cover her dead.

Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the rulers of Israel, each man by his might, have been in you in order to shed blood.

Ezekiel 22:12-13

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you gained by extortion of your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord Jehovah.

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