If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
Parallel translations
- WEB if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
- BSB if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
- NKJV If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or caused its owners to lose their lives;
- NASB If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,
- NLT or if I have stolen its crops or murdered its owners,
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Quick answer
Job swears he never consumed his land's produce without paying or caused its owners to lose their lives. He affirms he never exploited or oppressed those who worked his fields.
Overview
Job denies eating the fruit of his land unjustly or bringing death to its rightful tenants and laborers. This guards against the oppression of workers, a sin the prophets repeatedly condemn. Job's just dealing with those who depended on his land reflects God's concern for the rights of laborers, a justice fully honored in Christ, who defends the oppressed and judges the exploiter.
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Cross-references · 8
- 1 Kgs 21:19And 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.
- Jas 5:4Behold, 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.
- Prov 1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
- Ezek 22:12–13In 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.
- Isa 26:21For, 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.
- Gen 4:12When 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 Kgs 21:13–16And 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.
- Ezek 22:6Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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