Job 31:39

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
  • 1 Kgs 21:13-16 : 13 And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death. 14 And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead. 15 Then Jezebel, hearing that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, said to Ahab, Get up and take as your heritage the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he would not give you for money, for Naboth is no longer living but is dead. 16 So Ahab, hearing that Naboth was dead, went down to the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite to take it as his heritage.
  • Prov 1:19 : 19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
  • Isa 26:21 : 21 For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.
  • Ezek 22:6 : 6 See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.
  • Ezek 22:12-13 : 12 In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord. 13 See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:38
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    38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

  • Gen 31:38-40
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    77%

    38 These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.

    39 Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.

    40 This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

  • Job 31:40
    76%

    40 Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

  • Job 31:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

    8 Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

    9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

  • Job 31:16-17
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    75%

    16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

    17 If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

  • Job 31:12-13
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    75%

    12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

    13 If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

  • Job 31:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

    19 If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

    20 If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

    21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

  • Job 31:25
    74%

    25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

  • Job 31:28-31
    4 verses
    73%

    28 That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

    29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

    30 (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

    31 If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

  • Exod 22:5
    72%

    5 If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it.

  • Job 13:14
    72%

    14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

  • Job 5:5
    71%

    5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

  • Prov 22:27
    71%

    27 If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.

  • Prov 1:19
    71%

    19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Job 34:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

    6 Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.

  • Ps 7:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

    4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

  • Exod 22:11-12
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    11 If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it.

    12 But if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make up for the loss of it to its owner.

  • Job 33:31
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    31 Take note O Job, give ear to me; keep quiet, while I say what is in my mind.

  • Exod 22:14-15
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    70%

    14 If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss.

    15 If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment.

  • Job 31:2
    70%

    2 For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

  • Job 26:1
    70%

    1 Then Job made answer and said,

  • Job 27:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 And Job again took up the word and said,

    2 By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

  • Job 23:1
    69%

    1 And Job made answer and said,

  • Job 41:11
    69%

    11 Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.

  • Job 29:1
    69%

    1 And Job again took up the word and said,

  • Job 31:33
    69%

    33 If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

  • Job 19:1
    69%

    1 And Job made answer and said,

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    69%

    3 Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

  • Job 6:22
    69%

    22 Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth?

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    69%

    36 But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
    69%

    7 Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?

  • Obad 1:5
    69%

    5 If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?

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    15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

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    69%

    21 With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.