Job 31:39

Easy To Read Version

I always paid the farmers for the food\par that I got from the land.\par And I never tried to take land away from\par the person who owned it.\par

Cross References

Genesis 4:12

In the past, {you planted, and your plants grew well. But now} you will plant, and the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home on the earth. You will wander from place to place.”

1 Kings 21:19

Tell Ahab that I, the Lord, say to him, ‘Ahab! You killed the man Naboth. Now you are taking his land. So I tell you this! In the same place that Naboth died, you will also die. The dogs that licked Naboth’s blood will lick your blood in the same place!’”

Job 24:10

Poor people have no clothes.\par So they work naked.\par They carry piles of grain for evil people,\par but still they go hungry.\par

Job 24:6

Poor people must work late into the night\par cutting hay and straw in fields.\par They must work for rich people {\cf2\super [40]} \par gathering the grapes in their fields.\par

Proverbs 1:19

Greedy people are always destroyed by the things they take.

Isaiah 26:21

The Lord will leave his place {\cf2\super [245]} \par to judge the people of the world\par for the bad things they have done.\par The earth will show the blood\par of the people that have been killed.\par The earth will not cover the dead people\par

Jeremiah 22:13

It will be very bad for King Jehoiakim.\par He is doing bad things\par so he can build his palace. {\cf2\super [179]} \par He is cheating people\par so he can build rooms upstairs.\par He is making his own people\par work for nothing.\par He is not paying them for their work.\par

Ezekiel 22:6

“‘Look! In Jerusalem, every ruler of Israel made himself strong so he could kill other people.

James 5:4

People worked in your fields, but you did not pay them. Those people are crying out against you. Those people harvested your crops. Now the Lord (God) of heaven’s armies {\cf2\super [24]} has heard the things they are shouting.