Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,
New American Standard Bible
Or have
King James Version
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
Holman Bible
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;
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,
Themes
Interlinear
Koach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:39
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
38 If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together; 39 if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives, 40 let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Names
Cross References
1 Kings 21:19
And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, Have thou killed and also taken possession? And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, eve
James 5:4
Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.
Genesis 4:12
When thou till the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength. A fugitive and a wanderer thou shall be on the earth.
1 Kings 21:13-16
And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. And the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth cursed God and the king. Then they carried him forth o
Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.
Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, LORD comes 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 22:6
Behold, the rulers of Israel, each one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:12-13
In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says lord LORD.