Job 31:39
Good News Translation
if I have eaten the food that grew there but let the farmers that grew it starve--

New Revised Standard Version
if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners;

Contemporary English Version
Nor have I cheated my workers and caused them pain.

New American Bible
If I have eaten its strength without payment and grieved the hearts of its tenants;

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:

fruits.

Genesis 4:12 When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.

1 Kings 21:13-16,19 And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit against him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him before the people: saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king. Wherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to death. . . .

Proverbs 1:19 Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:

Isaiah 26:21 For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.

Ezekiel 22:6,12,13 Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood. . . .

Context
Job's Final Appeal
38If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: 39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:40Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.…
Cross References
James 5:4
Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

1 Kings 21:19
And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast slain: moreover also thou hast taken possession. And after these words thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.

Job 24:6
They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.

Job 24:10
From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.

Job 31:38
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