Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;
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;
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,
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 has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; 39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners; 40 Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
Names
Cross References
1 Kings 21:19
Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.
James 5:4
See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
Genesis 4:12
No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
1 Kings 21:13-16
And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.
Proverbs 1:19
Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
Isaiah 26:21
For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.
Ezekiel 22:6
See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.
Ezekiel 22:12-13
In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.