Job 31:39

Job chapter 31 · verse 39 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.38If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;

v.39This passage

v.40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 1:19

    So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

  • 1 Kings 21:19

    And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

  • 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.

  • Isaiah 26:21

    For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

  • Ezekiel 22:12

    In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • Genesis 4:12

    when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.