Job 31:38 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁸If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

Job 31:38 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Job 20:27
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Psalms 65:13
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
James 5:4
Behold, 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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 33-40)

We have here Job’s protestation against three more sins, together with his general appeal to God’s bar and his petition for a hearing there, which, it is likely, was intended to conclude his discourse (and therefore we will consider it last), but that another particular sin occurred, from which he thought it requisite to acquit himself. He clears himself from the charge, I. Of dissimulation and hy…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 38)

38. Personification. The complaints of the unjustly ousted proprietors are transferred to the lands themselves (Job 31:20; Ge 4:10; Ha 2:11). If I have unjustly acquired lands (Job 24:2; Is 5:8). furrows--The specification of these makes it likely, he implies in this, “If I paid not the laborer for tillage”; as Job 31:39, “If I paid him not for gathering in the fruits.” Thus of the four clauses in…