Job 31:39
What does Job 31:39 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 31:39 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
KJV
King James Version · 1611If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
Context
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.
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