Parallel Verses
King James Version
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
New American Standard Bible
Or have
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,
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 cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; 39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 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 shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, 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 labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Genesis 4:12
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
1 Kings 21:13-16
And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, the LORD cometh 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 princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:12-13
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.