Job 31:39
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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.

Lexicon
if
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

I have devoured
אָכַ֣לְתִּי (’ā·ḵal·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

its produce
כֹּ֭חָהּ (kō·ḥāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species)

without
בְלִי־ (ḇə·lî-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 1097: Failure, nothing, destruction, without, not yet, because not, as long as

payment
כָ֑סֶף (ḵā·sep̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3701: Silver, money

or broken the spirit
וְנֶ֖פֶשׁ (wə·ne·p̄eš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

of its tenants,
בְּעָלֶ֣יהָ (bə·‘ā·le·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1167: A master, a husband, owner


Additional Translations
if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

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

and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him:

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:

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

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

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
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