When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
Job 31:39 - Revised Standard Version CI if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If I have eaten its fruits without paying for them or have caused its [rightful] owners to breathe their last, American Standard Version (1901) If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: Common English Bible if I have eaten its yield without payment and caused its owners grief, Catholic Public Domain Version if I have used its fruits for nothing but money and have afflicted the souls of its tillers, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof: |
When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Have you killed, and also taken possession?” ’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.” ’ ”
They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;
They gather their fodder in the field and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
Such are the ways of all who get gain by violence; it takes away the life of its possessors.
For behold, the Lord is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain.
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing, and does not give him his wages;
“Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.