Job 31:38
What does Job 31:38 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 31:38 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;
KJV
King James Version · 1611If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
- Psalms 65:13
The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered over with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing.
- Job 20:27
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.
- James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
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