Job Chapter 31 verse 38 Holy Bible
If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;
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If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;
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If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;
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If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
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If my land crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain;
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If my land cries out against me, And the furrows of it weep together;
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If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 38-40. - It is generally supposed that these verses, with the exception of the last clause of ver. 40, are misplaced. As a termination, they form an anti-climax, and greatly weaken the peroration. Their proper place would seem to be between vers. 32 and 33. Verse 38. - If my land cry against me; i.e. if my land disclaim my ownership, as having been acquired by wrong or robbery. If the furrows likewise thereof complain; or, weep, as having been torn from their rightful proprietors, and seized by a stranger. The apodosis is in ver. 40.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(38) Or that the furrows likewise thereof complain.--Rather, Or if the furrows thereof weep together--a strong impersonation to express the consequence of oppression and wrong-doing. It is to be observed that throughout this defence Job has far more than traversed the indictment of his friends. He has shown that he has not only not broken the moral law, as they insinuated, but, much more, has shown himself exemplary in all the relations of life, so that, according to the narrator of the history, he was not only one that feared God and eschewed evil (Job 1:1), but also was perfect, i.e., of sincere and consistent conduct and upright.
