Job 31:39 BSB — MannaFest

Job 31:39

if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXII (604)

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof. [ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION] For to 'eat the fruit of the land without money' is to receive indeed our charges from the Church, but not to yield to that Church the price of preaching. Of which same preaching it is said by the voice of the Creator, Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money,.... Or, "the strength thereof without silver" (b); see Gen 4:12, silver being the money chiefly in use in those times.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

If I have eaten the fruits thereof - Margin, strength. The strength of the earth is that which the earth produces or which is the result of its strength. We speak now of a “strong soil “ - meaning that it is capable of bearing much. Without money - Hebrew “without silver “ - silver being the principal circulating medium in early times. The meaning here is, “without paying for it;” either without having paid for the land, or for the labor. “Or have caused the owners thereof.” Margin, the soul of the owners thereof to expire, or breathe out.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
כֹּ֭חָהּ	Ko.chah	produce its	H3581 →
אָכַ֣לְתִּי	'a.Khal.ti	I have eaten	H398 →
בְלִי־	ve.li-	not	H1097 →
כָ֑סֶף	Kha.sef	money	H3701 →
וְנֶ֖פֶשׁ	ve.Ne.fesh	and [the] life of	H5315 →
בְּעָלֶ֣יהָ	be.'a.Lei.ha	owners its	H1167 →
הִפָּֽחְתִּי׃	hi.Pa.che.ti	I have caused to breathe out	H5301 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 5:4
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
leads to
- Leviticus 19:13
  You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
- Jeremiah 22:13
  “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- Deuteronomy 24:14–15
  Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
- Romans 9:29
  It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
- Malachi 3:5
  “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud…
Through
Proverbs 1:19
Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
leads to
- Habakkuk 2:9
  Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 15:27
  He who is greedy for unjust gain brings trouble on his household, but he who hates bribes will live.
- 2 Peter 2:3
  In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job